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Is this possible?
New, or second hand?
New without need for case or hard drive.
Probably need to upgrade it within a few days if you want to play any new games.
Without a need for a hard drive and case its.... not really possible
Motherboard: No idea, something ~ £50
CPU: e5200- ~£60
RAM: pc6400 2gb ~ £20
PSU: 500w BFG ~ £50
GPU: ati 4830 ~£90 or an nvidia 9800GT~£90
Total: £270
Could try 9600GT for ~£70, cheaper motherboard of like £30 but then you still talking £230 so i guess you should save a bit more
Originally Posted by snootyjim
i still think you should try second hand?
Otherwise your best to save up a bit.
Last edited by handscombmp; 06-12-2008 at 08:27 PM.
how about dont waste money on a cheap thing and just save up
Well I would have to agree with everyone and say save up a bit longer and wait. But for about £200 this is qhat I managed:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150596 - 460W PSU
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148715 - E5200 2.5Ghz dual core CPU
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/119279 - 2GB DDR800 Crucial Ballistix RAM
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148094 - Asus G31 mobo (should overclock reasonably well)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150349 - ATI 4670 (decent mid range graphics card)
Total: £213.80 inc VAT
That would still be a decent enough rig, but a bit more money will help no end.
Hawker
assuming you have an os an amd route that could double as a HTPC after
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/350W-...ATA-80plus-Eff - 350 PSU £27.49 ( not checked if this would be ok )
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/512MB...-DL-DVI-I-HDMI ASUS ATI 4670 £62.45
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/2GB-(...d-CAS-5-5-5-15 2GB CVS memory £21.31
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Asus-...-RAID-HDMI-ATX ASUS 780g Mobo £47.83
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/AMD-A...ergy-Eff-S-AM2 AMD x2 5000+ £45.97
£205.05 Inc VAT + Delivery
Personaly I would wait
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
bit-tech do a good technology round up each month (maybe hexus could do their own and get some competition going) but I'm in two minds about your predicament. Most people spend lots of money on PCs and so expect other people to spend a lot of money too, but as long as you get cheap CPU and motherboard you could get a *reasonable* system that would play games. Don't expect it to be a monster PC and others are right in recommending if you want to get the best value for money you spend more you get more. I think it would be interesting actually to do a chart of bang for buck vs total expenditure, I expect it would be a curve whereby when you spend very little you have poor bang for buck and when you spend a lot you will also have poor bang for buck, its about hitting the sweet spot.
£300 would get you a decent enough machine, though.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...buy-dec-2008/1
Dreaming
C2D E6300 @ 2.8 | | Abit IP35 Pro | | 4GB Corsair XMS2 800 | | BFG 8800GTS OC2 320MB | | 500GB Western Digital for OS + 1500GB Seagate for Storage | | Antec NeoHE 550 | | Lian Li PC A05B | | Samsung 226BW 22"
The above £200 machines will do the job but if you could get to £300 (as Dreaming says) you will get all the performance you need for current gaming.
Wow, that is pretty incredible value, I doubt you'd need more power than that for a system this spec.
Here is the nearest I could get using Ebuyer using Supersaver postage if you needed a case,optical drive and a hard drive:
PowerColor HD 4650 512MB DDR2 Dual DVI TV Out PCI-E Graphics Card £45.99 £39.99
Kingston 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Hyperx Memory CL5 £18.99 £16.51
Foxconn M61PMV GeForce 6100 Socket AM2+ onboard VGA 5.1 channel audio mATX Motherboard £35.09
Hiper 425W PSU - 120mm Fan, 20+4pin, 1x 6pin PCI-E, 2x SATA, 6x Molex £24.99
Casecom KB-7720 Beige ATX Midi Tower Case - No PSU and no Case Fans Included £10.76
LG 16X DVD-Rom Beige SATA - OEM £7.82
Seagate ST380815AS 80GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache - OEM £25.36
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Socket AM2 (2.2GHz) Energy Efficient 1MB L2 Cache OEM Processor £33.56
Akasa AK 860SF - Processor cooler - ( Socket 754, Socket 940, Socket 939, Socket AM2 ) - aluminium £5.72
Total: £208.28
All you need is an OS, a keyboard and mouse and a monitor to complete the system!
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 08-12-2008 at 07:04 PM.
He didn't need a case CAT-THE-FIFTH so spec a real PSU!
Thanks guys a lot of good suggestions I guess gpu is where you need to spend the money not expecting top notch performance, anything is better than current computer which amd 3000+ semprom with really awful onboard graphics!
Meh! The Hiper should be Ok for such a low powered system!
Here is an updated specification from Ebuyer lacking a case,hard drive and optical drive:
Kingston 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Hyperx Memory CL5 £18.99
Hiper 425W PSU - 120mm Fan, 20+4pin, 1x 6pin PCI-E, 2x SATA, 6x Molex £24.99
MSI K9N6PGM2-V Socket AM2 GeForce 6100 onboard VGA 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard 148025 £37.05
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Socket AM2 2.7GHz Energy Efficient L2 1MB (2x512KB) Retail Boxed Processor £49.44
Inno3D 9600GT 512MB DDR3 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card £79.21
Total(including free Supersaver postage): £209.68
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