Home / Office PC for £700?

[Devilman]

Need a bit of help here, as I have been slacking off and havent kept up to date with stuff thats available no more.

I have a friend whos looking to build (well, looking to pay me to build lol) a decent home / office PC thatll last a few years.

Now, the only clear-cut requirements I do have for the system is they want DVD-RW and TFT.

I was thinking of going along the lines of:

3000+ A64 90nm S939
1GB Geil Value 3200
NEC 3520 Writer.

Now, the problem is, I have no clue what mobo to put in this system, or for that matter what gfx card either.

Gimme some recommendations plz guys. I dont see the system as being an overclockers heaven, or an "uber games machine" so the likes of NF4 and PCI-E etc.. really arent needed. I just dont know whats "good" as opposed to "best" anymore.

Thx all

[Furton]

All from overclockers.co.uk

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-096-AM)
£89.95 £89.95
Gigabyte K8NF-9 nForce4 (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard (MB-032-GI)
£62.50 £62.50
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL)
£84.95 £84.95
OcUK ATI Radeon 9250 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI) - Retail (R92P-LD3) (GX-014-OK)
£44.95 £44.95
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 160GB ATA-100 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-008-SE)
£51.95 £51.95
NEC ND3520 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-014-NE)
£33.90 £33.90
Antec SLK1650B Black Quiet Mini Tower Case - 350W SmartPower PSU (CA-023-AN)
£39.95 £39.95
OcUK Value 1715 17" LCD Monitor (MO-000-OK)
£139.95 £139.95
Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v2.0 - OEM (KB-018-MS)
£24.30 £24.30
OcUK Value Floppy Drive - Black (HD-001-OK)
£6.50 £6.50
Subtotal £578.90
Shipping (Amtrak Next Day (Mon-Fri) - UK Mainland) £12.25
VAT £103.46
Total £694.61

It's a pretty good system with future upgrades in mind as it's socket 939 and nForce 4. Should be more than adeqate for office/home use.

[noveltylamp]

Motherboards based on the new ATI RS480/RX480 chipset are showing up now. They are as fast as NF4 boards but lack overclocking options. There is the MSI version for £69 @ Komplett.co.uk and the EQS M56K9-MLF for £75 @ gladiatorcomputers.co.uk.

They have on board ATI x300 graphics, which is the best on-board graphics solution. Can even play doom 3 albeit with pretty low settings. If they're looking to game then you could always pick up an x700 Pro for around £120 which is the best sub £200 ATI card, or a Geforce 6600GT for around the same money.

[EQS Bob]

Motherboards based on the new ATI RS480/RX480 chipset are showing up now. They are as fast as NF4 boards but lack overclocking options. There is the MSI version for £69 @ Komplett.co.uk and the EQS M56K9-MLF for £75 @ gladiatorcomputers.co.uk.

They have on board ATI x300 graphics, which is the best on-board graphics solution. Can even play doom 3 albeit with pretty low settings. If they're looking to game then you could always pick up an x700 Pro for around £120 which is the best sub £200 ATI card, or a Geforce 6600GT for around the same money.

Hi All,

Thank you for your support in EQS, just want to correct one point you mention.

In komplett.co.uk is selling 69+VAT because I went and check

In Gladiator is 75 inc VAT that 17.5% does make a different i guess.

Once again thanks for the Review in Hexus.net.

Cheers

[Rave]

The Komplett price includes VAT Bob.