WANTED: Cheap Silent Small PC

[ikonia]

Guys,

I'd like to know what price (cheap as possible) you small form factor guys think you could do the following

Small as you can, quiet as you can

Crappy video card (will be run headless)
Crappy Sound
2 x100 meg Nic's
512 Ram (256 would probably do)
cd / DVD rom drive
around 80 gig storage


what can you do ?



i've managed to get it just bellow £300

[5cupa]

what speed cpu???

depends if u use onboard sound/gfx then an

asus pundit for £95
1x nic (as one onboard) £8
512mb ddr 3200 £45
cdrw/dvd £30
120gb sata £50

total = £228

+ cpu p4 or cel

[ikonia]

not bad at all, although the cpu's will wack that up a little

[Proplus]

SK43G - 131
1xNIC - 8
512Mb PC3200 - 45
AOpen COM5232G 52x/32x/52x/16x CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive - 25
Hitachi 80Gb IDE HDD - 36

= £245 + CPU

not sure if this takes a Sempron, but if it does, the cheapest Semprons are around £34, which will make the grand total as £279.

[schmunk]

How about a mini-ITX computer?

Smaller than Shuttles etc, they're relatively cheap, run very cool, so noisy fans not needed - some of them are even fanless!

Onboard Video, sound, LAN (Two on CL / PD boards), CPU included in price, all other connections standard.

They'll run all your office apps, downloading, DVDs , DivX/XviD (the 1GHz+ ones), older games.

Here's a good place to start