Okay my friend has £450 (absolute max!!! So all systems must be under 450 including delivery costs). He's has made this spec list but he wanted me to see if you think it is okay or if he could do any better. He definately wants a SN45G, 512Mb of Ram and a 200Gb HDD, but makes and graphics card are negotiable!
Product Store Price
Shuttle SN45G OCUK £115.00
AMD Athlon XP2600+ Komplett £64.40
Western Digital 200GB Caviar Komplett £99.01
Sapphire Radeon 9600 w/ 256MB Komplett £74.03
TwinMOS 512MB (2 x 256MB) PC3200 Komplett £56.40
TOTAL (including all delivery) £445.43
Please mention any compatabilty issues or anything like that. He wants a pretty reasonable cheap graphics card with DVI for his very expensive 20" IBM LCD (running at 1600x1200) so it has to be able to cope with those high resolutions for photoshop stuff and for the odd game or relatively strenous 3D task.
Let battle commence!
Pickers