PC required

[Leon]

Spending limit £250 (which will get a very nice 500mhz with all the peripherals and software on Loot).
Must be full set-up ie base, monitor, speakers, keyboard, mouse, CD, A:, etc. And software - Office a must.

ANyone got anything in Susex, Hampshire/South London areas? Thought I'd ask you guys first as I know you on here and figure you ain't arf bad... ;)

Inspection and collection between now and next Tuesday?

Cheers

[dave_s13]

You could build a spanking new one for £400.

You'd be able to get sommat like this:-
AMD athlon 1600XP
256mb DDR RAM
56x CDrom
30gig HDD
17" Monitor
64mb Graphics
etc

I can supply you with copies of Win XP, Office XP, Encarta for the price of a round of beers.

I always use www.ebuyer.com, if u want to know what bits to get and how to build it, I can advise.

Or I can build u one and courier it to you for about £460.

Or look in loot

[beavertron]

Sorry to jump on the thread but i need Just a P4 1.3gig (at least) processor and motherboard to go with it with ddr ram slots to fit in an atx case. Is my atx power supply good enough 300w i think?
I have hd, monitor, cd writer etc just wondering if i can just do that?

ty.

[dave_s13]

Yep u can.

I'd get an AMD XP processor and main board though, it'll save u a fair bit of ££ and probably go a bit faster.

HTH.

[beavertron]

But i heard the AMD`s needed a much bigger power supply??
hmm think i can get the p4 cheap too with huge heatsink+fan :)

What motherboard/chipset am i looking at for p4 with ddr ram - on board monitoring would b cool too :D

[Dave_S]

Either way you will need either a P4 certified or AMD certified PSU. The P4s have another power connector as well so not just any old PSU.

Dave

[dave_s13]

300W is fine.

All the PC's I build have a 300W supply.

You can get this board/cpu/fan for about £125 delivered

Board
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=30293

CPU
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=32057

Otherwise, there should be nowt wrong with one of these

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=43181

[dave_s13]

Originally posted by Dave_S
Either way you will need either a P4 certified or AMD certified PSU. The P4s have another power connector as well so not just any old PSU.

Dave

You can get a 400w approved PSU for about £15 or a new case with a PSU installed for about £20.

[beavertron]

thanks mate :)

[Dave_S]

300w should be fine unless you are going for REALLY power hungry components. Many people fail to realise the importance of a decent power supply and the problems they can cause. Quite often random crashes / lockups can be attributed to poor power supplies.

Dave

[Pauly_Boy]

Yep, power supply is often overlooked! I'm lucky, my one seems to handle a monitor and usual stuff, fine. Also stoped all the case fans and the motherboard fan has conked out! So all round its also a hot PC!

I've been woken up in the morning with the motherbaord beeping :eek:

Starionman, that is well, a bit expencive, you can get a new pc for around £300 and software is free if ya know what i mean

;)

[Vez]

DOnt you need 1.21 gigawatts of power or was that another post :confused:

[Pauly_Boy]

Originally posted by Vez
DOnt you need 1.21 gigawatts of power or was that another post :confused:

Not unless you planning of powering the national grid!

[Leon]

Originally posted by dave_s13
You could build a spanking new one for £400.

You'd be able to get sommat like this:-
AMD athlon 1600XP
256mb DDR RAM
56x CDrom
30gig HDD
17" Monitor
64mb Graphics
etc

I can supply you with copies of Win XP, Office XP, Encarta for the price of a round of beers.

I always use www.ebuyer.com, if u want to know what bits to get and how to build it, I can advise.

Or I can build u one and courier it to you for about £460.

Or look in loot

Hmmm :)
Sounds enticing...
I may well come to you when getting something for myself... :)

[dave_s13]

Originally posted by Pauly_Boy

Starionman, that is well, a bit expencive, you can get a new pc for around £300 and software is free if ya know what i mean

;)

True, but it won't be very good.


That £400 is for something with a bit of oomph.

[Winterfell]

I was recently doing a spot of research for a friend who wanted a cheap but reasonable upgrade to their current PC. All they needed was a base unit (keeping current monitor, k/b, rodent, software, etc.) that could play some of the latest games and do all the usual productivity stuff - kids homework, internet access etc.

Budget was £250

This is what I came up with for him:

NB. First price is excl of VAT.


AMD ATHLON XP1600+ 266GHz FSB £40.88 (£48.04)
Coolermaster DP5-6J31C Fan AMD Approved Upto XP & MP 2100 £4.48 (£5.27)
Asus A7N266-VM SKT A Integrated NVIDIA GeForce2 Graphics ALC650 audio with SPDIF £51.26 (£60.24)
JNC 8850 Nokia Style ATX Full Midi Tower Case & 300W PSU £17.18 (£20.19)
256MB DDR PC2100 RAM £45.51 (£53.48)

Total £159.31 (£187.22 )

I charged him a crate of ale to build it for him - so new system cost less than £225! Plus when he gets round to it he has a second base unit on hand which with a few peripherals can be the start of a small home network. Bargain!!

The moral of the story?? Shop around!

Good luck with your search.

[Leon]

Cheers
I've got to get the lot, rodent, screen et al...
tempted to build my own... don't know that much about it all tho... and haven't got the time to play about...

[Pauly_Boy]

Winterfell, where are those bits brought from??

The only big cost will be a screen, so you really are better off finding someone to build a new 1 for ya.

[JasewithBase]

This company have some decent priced pc parts/monitors..

www.cclcomputers.co.uk

reliable and quick

[Winterfell]

Originally posted by Pauly_Boy
Winterfell, where are those bits brought from??

The only big cost will be a screen, so you really are better off finding someone to build a new 1 for ya.


All those bits are from E-Buyer - as are these

Rodents are cheap - £4.99 for a Memorex USB Optical mouse.

K/B - £2.29 for E-Buyers own multimedia/internet one with more spangly programmable buttons than you can shake a stick at :)

Monitor is about £125 for a CTX 17" with 3 yr on-site warranty.

A new monitor will (as you can see) seriously dent a budget but if you look in free ads theres always a bunch of 17"/21" monitors for sale.

[Pauly_Boy]

yeah, monitors never really seem to get any cheaper!

bugger eh, anyway, i supose if they'd developed at the same speed as cpu's we'd beable to by a 240x240 inch screen for £90 :eek: