Okaayy....
I recently decided to buy myself a computer. I thought, "Let's go have a look at prebuilt computers and find a cheapish one.... at the local computer shop."
Then I realised that they were vastly overpriced. The computer you could buy for £330 on the web was going for about £450.
So I decided to save up £350 to buy myself a computer. Not a problem.. in about 2 months could do that without breaking a sweat and still have enough left over to go to the cinema the day after.
Alternatively, I could spend about £100 less (occasionally slightly more than £100 less) on buying the parts and just build it myself.
Now, I'm not really one for building computers from scratch. Yes, it's not beyond me to plug in a Hard Drive, or install and operating system, but the biggest thing I'd handled was a 8GB hard drive and 256mb of RAM... and a 20x DVD Drive which I pirated off of a computer someone gave me.
Anyway, I thought "ARGH!!! I'm not sure if I can build it!"
So I looked for help. And I found it. Turns out it's not too hard to build yourself a computer... just takes a bit of time, money, sweat, blood and hopefully not body parts.
So I've saved up about £200-300 (not sure of exact amount... selling couple of old computers in a few days for varying amounts, and using this to finance buying a bigger and better one )
Here's what I thought I might buy... any ideas and so on would be nice... along with how to get them cheaper than what I've got down on this list.
GA-MA69VM-S2 Motherboard (onboard Radeon X1200) £31.89
AMD Athlon 5200+ Processor £62.66
2x1GB 800mhz Kingston RAM £30.53
160GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive £28.66
Vista Home Premium £58.17
4x80mm Akasa Fan £11.94
Case w/ 400W PSU £23.49
Total (inc VAT): £268.12
Delievery: £9.98
Total (inc Delivery/VAT): About £280.
I'm sure you can think of at least two ways of either improving it, or cutting down on the price of it!
Any ideas at all would be nice! Shout them out.. and don't forget that the maximum I'm spending on this particular machine is only £300!
The last forum I posted this on they immediately said to spend about £250 on a CPU, £100 on a Graphics Card and the rest of it on everything else.
Looking for advice,
mediaboy