Hi,
my brothers PC just died on him (I think the HD is still intact) and he needs a new one quick.
Given that Vista is out soon, and that he cant afford to buy a £1500 beast, we're just gonna go for a budget one to tide him over.
His budget is about £350 ($683.48, if you beleive in PPP), but keeping it to 300 would be nice.
This isnt a whole new build, I just need a CPU, MOBO, GFX, and External Hard-Drive.
I've put this togeather for him but I've been out of the loop for a while and could do with some advice on better choices (especially regarding mobo)
Abit NF-M2-NVIEW Nvidia® GF6150/NF430 AM2 Motherboard
£56.40 £56.40
ASUS EN7600GS SILENT/HTD - Graphics adapter - GF 7600 GS - PCI Express x16 - 256 MB DDR II - Digital Visual Interface (DVI) - HDTV out
£65.48 £65.48
My Book Essential Edition WDG1U2500 - Hard drive - 250 GB - external - Hi-Speed USB - 4 pin USB - 7200 rpm - buffer: 8 MB
£62.85 £62.85
Processor - 1 x AMD Athlon 64 3200+ / 2 GHz - Socket AM2 - L2 512 KB - Box
£49.14 £49.14
TOTAL:
£284.73 (including P&P and all the rest of the crap)
At the mo he has a 420watt PSU and a gig 'o ram. Should that PSU be enough for this? He also has an IDE 120gig Seagate hard-drive (can this new mobo still do IDE?)
Should i stick with AMD, or is Intel better now? What about the graphics card, any better 'power per dollar' deals out there?
He mainly uses it for surfing the net and a bit of gaming, so it just needs to be quite nippy and able to handle modern applicaitons.
That mobo is what im dubious about, how good is it?
Please reply pronto, he needs this really quickly.
Thanks,
Tacitus
my brothers PC just died on him (I think the HD is still intact) and he needs a new one quick.
Given that Vista is out soon, and that he cant afford to buy a £1500 beast, we're just gonna go for a budget one to tide him over.
His budget is about £350 ($683.48, if you beleive in PPP), but keeping it to 300 would be nice.
This isnt a whole new build, I just need a CPU, MOBO, GFX, and External Hard-Drive.
I've put this togeather for him but I've been out of the loop for a while and could do with some advice on better choices (especially regarding mobo)
Abit NF-M2-NVIEW Nvidia® GF6150/NF430 AM2 Motherboard
£56.40 £56.40
ASUS EN7600GS SILENT/HTD - Graphics adapter - GF 7600 GS - PCI Express x16 - 256 MB DDR II - Digital Visual Interface (DVI) - HDTV out
£65.48 £65.48
My Book Essential Edition WDG1U2500 - Hard drive - 250 GB - external - Hi-Speed USB - 4 pin USB - 7200 rpm - buffer: 8 MB
£62.85 £62.85
Processor - 1 x AMD Athlon 64 3200+ / 2 GHz - Socket AM2 - L2 512 KB - Box
£49.14 £49.14
TOTAL:
£284.73 (including P&P and all the rest of the crap)
At the mo he has a 420watt PSU and a gig 'o ram. Should that PSU be enough for this? He also has an IDE 120gig Seagate hard-drive (can this new mobo still do IDE?)
Should i stick with AMD, or is Intel better now? What about the graphics card, any better 'power per dollar' deals out there?
He mainly uses it for surfing the net and a bit of gaming, so it just needs to be quite nippy and able to handle modern applicaitons.
That mobo is what im dubious about, how good is it?
Please reply pronto, he needs this really quickly.
Thanks,
Tacitus