£300 budget PC - realistic?

[willgar]

The smaller cache of the E2160 when compared to the E4300 does make a small difference:

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=651&p=3


The E4300 does cost around 15 quid more though!!

The Abit IB9 also has two IDE connectors on the motherboard which is useful since I assume both your drives are IDE??

Lucky my current drive is an early SATA drive but you have just reminded me - i need to buy a SATA DVD drive as well....

[Steve B]

the sata DVD-RW's are just about the same price as the IDE ones.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Lucky my current drive is an early SATA drive but you have just reminded me - i need to buy a SATA DVD drive as well....

I think you need to raise your budget to 350 quid unless you want to skimp on your PSU and case which is NOT a good idea!!

You should be able to include a SATA DVD drive and E4300 in that price or a SATA DVD drive and a good aftermarket CPU cooler if you want to do some overclocking!!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I specced this system from Ebuyer:

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Remove from cart late delivery cut-off and timed delivery unavailable for this item Antec NSK6500 Black/Silver Super Mid Tower Case - With 430W PSU 114046 121 in stock £50.00 £50.00
Remove from cart late delivery cut-off and timed delivery unavailable for this item Asus P5B Socket Lga775 Core 2 Duo Intel P965 Fsb1066 8gb Ddr2 Sata 300 Gigabit Lan 8chn Audio 121112 6 in stock £55.57 £55.57
Remove from cart Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 667MHz/PC2-5400 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL5 Lifetime Warranty 098691 27 in stock £41.69 £41.69
Remove from cart late delivery cut-off and timed delivery unavailable for this item Sapphire X1950Pro 256MB GDDR3 DVI TVO HDCP PCI-E Graphics Card 119203 66 in stock £71.93 £71.93
Remove from cart late delivery cut-off and timed delivery unavailable for this item Intel E2160 Socket 775 Pentium Dual Core 2x1.8Ghz 800FSB Retail Boxed Processor 127248 402 in stock £46.82 £46.82
Remove from cart Samsung SH-S203B 20X DVD�RW/RAM / DL Serial ATA Black Bare Drive - OEM 129527 633 in stock £15.49 £15.49
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[Thorsson]

I hope you're not going to put the case on a carpet...

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article216-page7.html

[willgar]

I hope you're not going to put the case on a carpet...

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article216-page7.html

That was the review that swung it for me = after owning a shuttle for 4 years, i value the quiet now....

and also, it cheap as chips compared to a real case + decent power supply