Work PC - Urgent Advice Please

[Matt1eD]

Basically, am about to build a new PC on the cheap. It will run pretty much all day, however only is really needed for running office apps, internet, email and doing the odd bit of scanning. I've mostly gone by reviews. I have drives and needed a mobo with inbuilt graphics.



I have tried to keep it to one supplier (eBuyer). If you can think of a better combination or you can get it down to a lower price please write here. Please state if I've made some bleeding obvious mistake (like when making a poster, and there's always a spelling mistake on it, no matter how many time one proof reads it..... then it goes up somewhere important and someone tells you)

BASICALLY DOES IT ALL WORK TOGETHER?

Your help is gratefully appreciated.
Thanks

[Jonny M]

Don't. Buy. PC Chips.

Spend a little more, get an Asus motherboard, and a cheap Antec case with PSU, and enjoy a more stable system and one which is nicer to work with.

[Matt1eD]

Thought that, that's more expensive though. Not for me though! If the PSU dies I have a spare one at home. Just want to keep it as that though. Cheers

[Dougal]

I have a fully working 2600+ system, asus mobo, selling it for £120, with 20GB HDD< CDRW, etc...

[Matt1eD]

I won't. Thanks though Dougal, got drives at home.

Am having a quick look at a few barebones though. I have an old CPU that might do the trick if it still works!

I HAVE DECIDED TO SPEND A BIT MORE, AM JUST HAVING A LOOK AT A SPEC. ATM

[arthurleung]

I won't. Thanks though Dougal, got drives at home.

Am having a quick look at a few barebones though. I have an old CPU that might do the trick if it still works!

I HAVE DECIDED TO SPEND A BIT MORE, AM JUST HAVING A LOOK AT A SPEC. ATM

Why not buy yourself a cheap Dell machine. You are not gaming on it anyway

[Matt1eD]

Still to expensive. Got some ideas now..... well done Caged. You kicked me into thinking. It'd be better to build something that'll last. I'm doing some Excel-ing to play around with prices.

P.S. IME Dell's (even the expensive ones) really slugishly run stuff. I dunno why, I have always found Dells wherever I go, however well managed just very slow.

[sawyen]

Still to expensive. Got some ideas now..... well done Caged. You kicked me into thinking. It'd be better to build something that'll last. I'm doing some Excel-ing to play around with prices.

P.S. IME Dell's (even the expensive ones) really slugishly run stuff. I dunno why, I have always found Dells wherever I go, however well managed just very slow.

motion seconded... a sloth is faster than me office's Dell GX280.. that goes for our two Dell Precision Series dual XEON with 2 gigs of RAM that ran our electron spray mass spectrometer as well.. utter rubbish... cant even load IE properly...

[webbyman]

i would proberly spend an extra £10-20 on cpu.

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[webbyman]

Why not buy yourself a cheap Dell machine. You are not gaming on it anyway

are you stupid?




looks fine for what you need it for, i would consider getting some cheaper ram, it seems overpriced, it's common for slower exactly the same type ram to be over priced since it has been in stock and hasn't been touched

[Mike Fishcake]

If you buy a PC Chips motherboard, I will find out where you live, and shake you violently whilst screaming "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!?!"

Well..... maybe not *quite* that bad

ANYONE but them though. Personally I'd always go for Asus branded boards, but I'd rather have no computer at all than have one based on a PC Chips mobo.

Horrible, horrible pieces of ****.

[Matt1eD]

looks fine for what you need it for, i would consider getting some cheaper ram, it seems overpriced, it's common for slower exactly the same type ram to be over priced since it has been in stock and hasn't been touched

You think so? Well I hope it lasts a year or two - for my mum... doesn't know it yet but she's moving away from 650MHz + 384 MB + chugging at XP Pro land! My dad gets that one and as he has taken to internet, email e.t.c. and really needs Office (for compatability) rather than a v. early version of Claris Works (admiteddly a good prog.). And I have a few spare parts lying around I'll chuck together for the rest of the system and take some from old comp. About the RAM, didn't want to go for ebuyers really cheap, and tis only a quid less.

Thanks all

So basically will it all work when put together? e.g. are all the bits compatible?

Addy for Mike: I thought that when I orginally put this together, but the reviews for that one seem OK.

[Dougal]

Just remember guys, hexus covered this before, some PCChips mobos are made by ECS

[Mike Fishcake]

Still wouldn't touch them with somebody else's 10 foot bargepole

[Tobeman]

I wouldn't ever buy ECS either In my eyes ECS are just rebadged PCChips

[joshwa]

i had to send 2 pchips boards back to ebuyer - in the end spent twice as much on a *working* msi or something similar...