cheap system

[psalliss]

have got a few spare bits lying around and am debating putting together a second system with them. the bits ive got are spare keyboard and mouse, 60 gig hard drive, cd writer, cd, rom, floppy, cables, speakers and audigy sound card, 56k modem and a adsl modem. and a amd heatsink. several psus

what is the cheapest way to put a system together i will need a case, motherboard chip and memory. and a graphics card. would a shuttle system be best with a integrated graphics on board. spec me the cheapest system able to run xp and the odd game. cheers

[Kezzer]

SN41G2 with integrated GF4MX, it's got the heatsink and PSU with it so all you need is drives, RAM, CPU and you're away

[psalliss]

ta there about £150 arents they and £50 for the 512mg memory

[Kezzer]

something like that nowadays yeh. £130 for the shuttle and £50 for 512MB of DDR RAM although the TwinMOS has a warning not to use it on nForce2 based chipsets. How very arbitrary

[MiniMarc]

something like that nowadays yeh. £130 for the shuttle and £50 for 512MB of DDR RAM although the TwinMOS has a warning not to use it on nForce2 based chipsets. How very arbitrary

I just saw your link to that in IRC, but I am actually running TwinMOS ram perfectly well in my shuttle SN41G2 albeit a single stick of ram and not dual channel stuff. The only problem is it wont overclock its PC3200 and dies at anything past 208 fsb

As for cheap systems, a shuttle would make an excellent small system, but if you check out ebuyer they can do some excellent budget systems, eg case with for £15 motherboard for £20, amd duron for about £25, ram for about £40 and a gfx card for £35.

It wont be as small or elegant as a shuttle, but it is cheap

[kushtibari]

I'd go with the second idea - just a cheap case from a b list - dabs is always good for a laugh - some of the stuff isn't even broke (last two weeks 'case with no screws' turned out to be clips only and never had screws and 'psu broken' worked fine) with a nforce 2 board with onboard graphics (sell the audigy to pay for it), duron 1.4 for 20 quid and some cheap ram, maybe £45 for 2 256 sticks45 . I would reckon you could get away with a net outlay of well under cheapest shuttle