Sub £300 PC

jamiecottonuk · 23 Mar 2006 at 18:38

Hi all,

Could someone please spec me up a PC for sub £300. My minium spend will be £200 and my max will be £300 so somewhere around £250 will be good.

I dont need an OS, monitor, keyboard or mouse etc etc

Cheers

Defcon5 · 23 Mar 2006 at 18:51

Whats it going to be used for?

Explicit · 23 Mar 2006 at 18:52

Any gaming? Or just the standard office / web surfing etc?

edit: oops

jamiecottonuk · 23 Mar 2006 at 19:33

Yea just standard web surfing and a bit of word

Alexrose1uk · 23 Mar 2006 at 19:36

Have a look at the barebone systems. All you need to add with a cheap one of them is CPU, RAM, CD and HD.

if the barebone costs say £100, that leaves you able to get a £50 CPU, 1GB of RAM, DVD RW for 30 quid and 250GB HD for £66.

Sorted

Raikiri · 23 Mar 2006 at 19:40

CA-023-AN Antec SLK1650B Black Quiet Mini Tower Case - 350W SmartPower PSU (CA-023-AN)
£39.95 £39.95
HD-023-WD Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 80GB 800JD SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-023-WD)
£29.95 £29.95
CP-116-IN Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.6GHz (533FSB) - Retail (CP-116-IN)
£84.95 £84.95
MY-013-SA Samsung Original 512MB DDR2 PC4200 533MHz (MY-013-SA)
£29.95 £29.95
MB-132-AS Asus P5VD1-X VIA PT880 (Socket LGA775) AGP & PCI-Express DDR Motherboard (MB-132-AS)
£39.95 £39.95
CD-033-LG LG GSA-4167BAL 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-033-LG)
£22.95 £22.95
Subtotal £247.70
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £45.09
Total £302.74

Dual core CPU, so you can do lots of things at once without any slowdown, DVD-RW, mobo supports both AGP and PCI-e so you have a decent upgrade path. I would get 2x512mb of ram though.

Explicit · 23 Mar 2006 at 19:42

AMD Sempron 64 2800+ 1.6GHz (Socket 754) CPU - Retail (CP-138-AM)
£52.82
Gigabyte K8N51GMF nForce 6100 Micro ATX (Socket 754) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-054-GI)
£46.94
OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-004-OK)
£49.94
Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 NCQ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A31637) (HD-001-HI)
£52.82
Samsung SH-W162C 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) (CD-068-SA)
£23.44
Antec SLK1650B Black Quiet Mini Tower Case - 350W SmartPower PSU (CA-023-AN)
£46.94

Total inc VAT: £272.90

Bit of cash left to get the 3100+ sempron or a bigger hard drive. Onboard graphics = no gaming at all