Please help spec up a computer for £500

[timtim86]

Hi guys, I'm about to order it now, just need your help for one more thing. Here's the current thought:

LN19074
Antec Sonata 3 Super Black Mini Tower Case with 500W aPFC PSU £66.89 £78.60

Abit IP-35, Dark Raider, iP35 Express, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX £52.99 £62.26

1 LN18913 Abit IP-35, Dark Raider, iP35 Express, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX

LN20707
Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Q6600 G0 SLACR, 95W, S775, 2.40 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 8MB Cache, OEM £129.99 £152.74

LN14277
2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12 £30.89 £36.30

LN13080
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - P4 up to 4.4GHz - S775 Dual/Quad Core Ready - The Favourite One! £10.89 £12.80

Optiarc/NEC AD 7200S-0B 20xDVD±R, 8xDVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, DVD-RAM x12, SATA, Black, OEM,+ Ahead £12.99 £15.26

1 LN21400 Optiarc/NEC AD 7200S-0B 20xDVD±R, 8xDVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, DVD-RAM x12, SATA, Black, OEM,

1 LN18487 Ahead Nero Essentials Burning ROM Suite 1 V7 Vista/Labelflash Edition


Net Total £304.64

Carriage £9.13

V.A.T. £54.91

TOTAL £368.68

How's that? The only thing I'm stuck on is the graphics card... he only has a 15" screen at the minute so I'm fairly certain he doesn't need an amazing amount of memory, but of course there's always possibility that he'll get something bigger later. What's a good compromise? I can't decide!

Cheers

[directhex]

Hi guys, I'm about to order it now, just need your help for one more thing. Here's the current thought:

LN19074
Antec Sonata 3 Super Black Mini Tower Case with 500W aPFC PSU £66.89 £78.60

Abit IP-35, Dark Raider, iP35 Express, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX £52.99 £62.26

1 LN18913 Abit IP-35, Dark Raider, iP35 Express, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX

LN20707
Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Q6600 G0 SLACR, 95W, S775, 2.40 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 8MB Cache, OEM £129.99 £152.74

LN14277
2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12 £30.89 £36.30

LN13080
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - P4 up to 4.4GHz - S775 Dual/Quad Core Ready - The Favourite One! £10.89 £12.80

Optiarc/NEC AD 7200S-0B 20xDVD±R, 8xDVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, DVD-RAM x12, SATA, Black, OEM,+ Ahead £12.99 £15.26

1 LN21400 Optiarc/NEC AD 7200S-0B 20xDVD±R, 8xDVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, DVD-RAM x12, SATA, Black, OEM,

1 LN18487 Ahead Nero Essentials Burning ROM Suite 1 V7 Vista/Labelflash Edition


Net Total £304.64

Carriage £9.13

V.A.T. £54.91

TOTAL £368.68

How's that? The only thing I'm stuck on is the graphics card... he only has a 15" screen at the minute so I'm fairly certain he doesn't need an amazing amount of memory, but of course there's always possibility that he'll get something bigger later. What's a good compromise? I can't decide!

Cheers

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cheap, but likely to be happy with anything new following a monitor upgrade of 22" or less

[Blitzen]

Seems good now.

[directhex]

oh, and you missed Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK

edit: and a hard disk, i think!

[mosherben]

Mate, don't forget about the Scan to Hexus free carriage offer

for graphics card, I would nean towards this: Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK

What about the OS and hard drive?

[timtim86]

'ello,

I just ordered it Got a proper version of vista already so didn't need that in this order and I got a 8800GS 384MB, the £124 Asus one. That's alright isn't it? It'll cope up to a 22" won't it? He'll be using a SATA drive he already has! It annoys me that he was so desperate to have a quad core when a dual core would have been just fine and saved a wedge. Oh well.

[timtim86]

oh and got him one of those sharkoon gaming mice at the same time ha.

[staffsMike]

The GS seems pretty good. The overclocked ones seem to be pretty much as good if not better than the ATi HD3850pro but that said, they overclock quite well and do come out a bit cheaper..

Swings and roundabouts I suppose.