Cheapest Rig You Can Build?

[Stewart]

[Peter Snow] Now, this is just a bit of fun...[/Peter Snow]

Right, for a laugh, go to eBuyer (has to be all from this website), and build the cheapest possible fully functioning PC you can - power not an issue, it just has to have all the bits needed to work.

So base unit stuff; CPU, RAM, Motherboard, etc.

Monitor, Speakers, Mouse, Keyboard.

Everything apart from Windows really.

Lets see just how cheap you can build a fully functioning office-type PC.

[unrealrocks]

http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/product....61e9a612557a19

http://www.accomputerwarehouse.com/p...Monitors&id=26

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=64225

Who wants to beat me?

£40 Base unit
£5 monitor
£5.33 periperals

Thats £50.33 + P&P So say £60

Not quite eBuyer but best working PC setup you can build online (without resorting to eBay).

[Zak33]

Mobo £16 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=59335
2300 Semp £32 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=72522
Good heatsink £5 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=78047
256 DDR £23 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=36557
Radeon 7000 32mb £16 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=59320
Maxtor 40gig £29 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=59320
Case £10 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=63769
PSU ANTEC (I REFUSE TO BUY CACK PSU'S) £28 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=63769
CD RW 24/10/40 £7 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=80278
Floppy £4 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=80278

How bout that? case/psu/mobo with sound and lan/cpu/heatsink/plenty ram/good vid card/good psu/good burner £170 inc vat

Totally upgradeable.....faster chip...more ram....better vid card...it'll take it all later on. If you want to improve ONE thing....bin the mobo..spend £20 more on an Nforce2....swap the 256 for 2x128....bingo...dual ram

The PSU will go to the next machine..so will the burner...the vid card is good enough for most stuff...god heatsink, so no worries there....pleased with this lot

OEM XP Home for £57 and you are SORTED

this would probably run most games from 3 years ago with no hassle at all

[menthel]

Mmm, smell the blood and pain caused by working on a cheap ebuyer case!

[Zak33]

Mmm, smell the blood and pain caused by working on a cheap ebuyer case!

he's right......

hmm

$50 US dollars for these Kevlar gloves
http://www.leatherglovesonline.com/c...tm/sp=ds20.htm

[Howard]

Mmm, smell the blood and pain caused by working on a cheap ebuyer case!

If your'e careful there shouldn't be a problem

[menthel]

They have sharp bits where there shouldn't be sharp bits! I am still having traumatic memories from working on one.

[Zak33]

back on track guys

CHEAP SYSTEM BUILDS>>>>>go do your worst...err....best

[menthel]

EZ Buddie D3V7-2 AMD Alum Barebone System Ez-watch 062206 20 £56.99 £56.99
Benq 52x Internal IDE CD-ROM Drive - OEM 038188 32 £7.23 £7.23
Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8 40Gb ATA 133 7200rpm Disk Drive - OEM 040971 594 £24.50 £24.50
Ebuyer Extra Value Beige PS2 Keyboard 020038 6910 £1.52 £1.52
Opto Rocket Mouse Pad 064755 401 £0.15 £0.15
Trust AMI PS/2 Mouse 073994 1306 £0.89 £0.89
AMD Sempron 2300 (SDA2300DUT3D) Processor 256Cache 333FSB Tray 072522 135 £27.31 £27.31
Ebuyer 256MB DDR333 PC2700 Extra Value Ram 036557 341 £19.60 £19.60

Total: £168.27
And stick linux on it!
There is even a mousemat. Although I am sure I have missed something.

[menthel]

Monitor!!!

Used Teco Te770bs 17fst Monitor 0.27mm 72khz Blk/silv 081622 1 £44.07 £44.07
- remove item Cart Total: £44.07

[Nextjackets]

some time my pc take 4 5 minutes to show windows no idea why

[jigjog888]

we used to salivate over some of these components in the early 2000's, humungous 40GB hard Drive and a huge 256mb ram stick LOL, how times have changed