What's the cheapest box I can put together

davestar_delux · 2 Feb 2008 at 19:14

An old family PC blew up (eMachines), I think the PSU and motherboard are gone and from googling I will need a new case as well as they wont fit other PSUs.

I'm really not up to date with latest technologies so can anyone help me with putting some compatible stuff together for me?

Specs really would be the minimum as I think this PC had 256mb or something.

I have a DVD drive, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers.

semi-pro waster · 2 Feb 2008 at 19:29

Something like this ought to do for your requirements, you could save a little by going for 1gb Ram but given the saving is less than £10 I really wouldn't bother. A barebones system might be even cheaper although less upgradeable.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3600+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - OEM £20.99
(£24.66) £20.99
(£24.66)
Foxconn 6150M2MA-KRS2H Micro ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0Y30005) £23.99
(£28.19) £23.99
(£28.19)
OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £23.99
(£28.19) £23.99
(£28.19)
Antec NSK 4480B Mini Tower Case (Black) - 380W Earth Watts PSU £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2) £4.99
(£5.86) £4.99
(£5.86)
Sub Total : £143.94
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £26.93
Total : £180.82

davestar_delux · 2 Feb 2008 at 20:53

Thanks man, would that work with a non-SATA HDD, got an old drive here I'd like to put in instead?

semi-pro waster · 2 Feb 2008 at 21:29

It will do but I think it only has one IDE connection so you will need to put both the hard drive and optical drive on the same chain, not a problem in itself but it does mean you can't add any more IDE devices.