Cheap PC

[Sazzarella]

Looking for a new pc for my BFs gran, hers just blew up.

Looking to spend ~£200-250 all in, already have monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, HDD + CD Drive.

So that leaves RAM,Mobo,CPU,PSU,Case.

[pANDAS Radio]

Go into PC World and see what deal they'll do you on a base unit only, you should be able to pick up something better than you'd expect for under £300.

[MarkMono]

Its really cool that we're now at a point in history where peoples grannies are perfectly capable oof operating PCs.

[pANDAS Radio]

Compaq Presario SR5401 for £239



Processor Type AMD Sempron Dual Core 2100
Clock-Speed 1.8 GHz
Front Side BUS 800MHz
Cache 512 MB
Operating-System Windows Vista (R) Home Premium
RAM Memory 1024 MB
Hard Disk Capacity 160 GB
Optical Drive 1 DL DVD-RW with Lightscribe
Graphics Memory 128mb Dedicated Up To 319mb MB The higher the memory the better quality images you are display
Graphics Description NVIDIA Geforce 6150 SE
Sound Card High Definition Audio 7.1(2 front and 6 rear ports) The quality of the sound generated by the PC will depend on how powerful the sound card is and the quality of the speakers
Media Card Reader 15-in-1 Allows the computer to read and transfer files onto a digital media card often found in digital cameras
No of USB connections 6 The more connections the computer has the more equipment you can connect to your computer e.g. modem, printer, scanner, digital camera, PDA
No of PCI Slots 4 These slots are used to add hardware to your computer e.g. a video card
No. of Firewire Connections 1 High speed data transfer link for digital video and other media. Ideal for quickly downloading video images from a camcorder to PC
Keyboard YES
Mouse YES
Weight 9.53 kg This is the weight of the appliance in KG
Height 377 mm
Width 169 mm
Depth 426 mm
Network LAN Ethernet 10/100BT integrated

[Sazzarella]

Much rather build something myself, was looking through www.overclockers.co.uk .

in middle of picking stuff, will report back with what ive chosen in 30mins orso.

[PapaZeb]

Originally Posted by MarkMono

Its really cool that we're now at a point in history where peoples grannies are perfectly capable oof operating PCs.

Friend of mine - his gran got into gaming big-time about 4-5 years ago. For Christmas she buys herself a new motherboard/ram/cpu/videocard/whatever and goes and installs the old one in her granddaughter's machine.

[Jaemi]

Dell have some smashing sales on atm.

[Danger]

Originally Posted by MarkMono

Its really cool that we're now at a point in history where peoples grannies are perfectly capable oof operating PCs.

My gran enjoyed a good game of Civilisation or theme hospital before she discovered the bingo again.

[Ghostsuit]

Originally Posted by Sazzarella

Much rather build something myself, was looking through www.overclockers.co.uk .

in middle of picking stuff, will report back with what ive chosen in 30mins orso.

To be honest your probably not worth building your own if it's a cheap machine your looking for.

I personally think build your own really only becomes a "cost saver" when your looking at a high end machine.

[0x21]

Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

To be honest your probably not worth building your own if it's a cheap machine your looking for.

I personally think build your own really only becomes a "cost saver" when your looking at a high end machine.

If you only need Mobo,RAM, PSU and case then you can pick up those pretty cheaply, certainly cheaper than a low end pre-built machine. Should be able to get all the bits to finish off a machine for under £100, whereas a base machine would still cost around £200-300?

[Sazzarella]

Ended up buying:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ 2.50GHz (Socket AM2)
Asrock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Akasa Ultra Quiet 400W Paxpower Active PFC ATX2.2 PSU - Black Nickel
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Akasa AK-ZEN-01-WH Rev.2 Zen White Case

Came to about £190

[Elfaba]

i need a new pc

tempted to go for a mac though...