Cheap as Chips

[speedy_s]

Hi i am looking(well my sister is but anyways...) for a system under £380 with kb/mouse/and a 15"/17" tft monitor(lack of space). She is in uni and mainly does the following things :

Word processing
Slide presentation
Visual Basic.NET
Dreamweaver
Photoshop/Fireworks/Flash
Surf the net.

The pc needs to be as cheap as possible and stable, and should run these 3 things. Looking at min sys req for VB and DW i found they need no more than 600MHZ with 256MB ram. So, realisticly what can i get for £380. remember cheaper the better ! prefferable the case should be as small as possible.
AND
Are there any notebooks out there which can run this for less than £550 ??

[Furton]

Right, this is over budget will be do the job well. All from overclockers.co.uk

Biostar IDEQ 210V Barebones System (FS-004-BS)
£89.00 £89.00
AMD Sempron 2200+ 1.50GHz (Socket A) CPU - OEM (CP-100-AM)
£24.95 £24.95
GeIL 512MB PC2700 Value CAS2.5 (GE5122700) (MY-001-GL)
£46.95 £46.95
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 80GB ATA-100 2MB Cache - OEM (HD-001-SE)
£33.50 £33.50
Samsung TS-H492AWRDH 52x/24x/16x CD-RW/DVD Combo (White) - Retail (CD-009-SA)
£23.90 £23.90
Hyundai L50S 15" LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-020-HY)
£129.00 £129.00
Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v2.0 - OEM (KB-018-MS)
£23.50 £23.50
Subtotal £370.80
VAT £64.89
Total £435.69

If she's going to use photoshop you do ideally need 512MB RAM, that's why I included it. You could bring the price down by downgrading to 256MB but I wouldn't recommend that. It's the TFT that brings the price up.

[speedy_s]

i believe thats without VAT ?
I do not think a barebone would be necesary ? A microATX case would be fine.
Yeah i know, the TFT shoots the price up. and one more thing only a CDROM is required, and wired mouse+kb would do i believe, would help in bringing the price down.

[Furton]

Subtotal £370.80
VAT £64.89
Total £435.69

If you can get someone to order this through a business they run then your under budget

Barebones are good since they are small and easy to transport back to uni e.t.c

[speedy_s]

Barebones are good since they are small and easy to transport back to uni e.t.c

she dosen't need to take it to uni

[Firelord]

I think furton meant as in from home to her accomodation at uni....

[Kumagoro]

How are sempron 2200 like for Ocing? can you get it the fsb up to 200 Mhz?

ahh firelord you at student at essex are you? i wouldnt knock it until you have been to see some other unis then you will appreciate just how good it is.... unless you live in greenstead of course.

[speedy_s]

back to the topic,
can some1 come up with a cheaper alternative ?
:: she comes home straight from uni so she dosen't need a barebone, normal or micro case would do. ::

[Furton]

Antec Aria Micro ATX Cube Case - 300w PSU (CA-021-AN)
£64.45 £64.45
AMD Sempron 2200+ 1.50GHz (Socket A) CPU - OEM (CP-100-AM)
£24.95 £24.95
Asus A7S8X-MX Micro ATX (Socket A) Motherboard (MB-086-AS)
£25.75 £25.75
GeIL 256MB PC2700 Value CAS2.5 (GE2562700) (MY-000-GL)
£20.25 £20.25
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 40GB ATA-100 2MB Cache - OEM (HD-006-SE)
£27.95 £27.95
Hyundai L50S 15" LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-020-HY)
£129.00 £129.00
LG GCR-8523BB 52x CD-ROM - OEM (CD-012-LG)
£7.20 £7.20
Creative Desktop 6000 - Retail (KB-003-CL)
£20.80 £20.80
Subtotal £320.35
VAT £56.07
Total £376.42

Again, from overclockers.co.uk
Within budget and a good system.

[speedy_s]

Hi, i ave done some of my own research and this is what i got, 4rm ebuyer
1 x Amd Sempron 2300+ 1.583ghz 256kb Cache FSB333 Retail Boxed Processor with 3 Year Warranty 80894 £30.97 £30.97
1 x Abit VA-10 KM400 Socket A 333FSB DDR333 On-Board VGA 8xAGP MATX 6 Channel Sound & LAN Retail Box 63174 £27.08 £27.08
1 x Kingston 512MB DDR PC3200 400MHz CL3 Memory Module 49294 £44.33 £44.33
1 x Aopen H360b Cool Grey/slim Desk/tower 250w 1x5.25 2x3.5 Microatx - Cool Grey 61161 £32.38 £32.38
1 x Benq Cd 52xspeed Cdrom Ide Internal - Retail Boxed 81478 £7.65 £7.65
1 x Logitech Black with Silver PS2/USB Optical Desktop Keyboard And Mouse - OEM 52117 £14.00 £14.00
1 x Relisys TL565B 15ins TFT Black Multimedia 46214 £128.98 £128.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar SE 40Gb UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache - OEM 40469 £28.75 £28.75

what do u recon ?
total £380