cheapest basic ebuyer system

Ive seen this done B4, and now a mate has asked me to build a PC, so here it goes


it will be used for surfing the net and digi photo's

nothing specail

whats the best price you can come up with

Just a word of warning, avoid the PC Chips / Syntax £20 jobby motherboard, I've had 2 faulty boards...

they should have an "auto-pc configurator" where they just give you a basic pc list of parts and you can upgrade or downgrade whatever parts you want. :)

anyway: here's the core of the pc: £185 for a decent-ish spec, perhaps get a slightly better coolermaster cooler for a couple of quid extra, and 512mb would be good for digital photo editing:

http://server4.uploadit.org/files/01...c_1stdec03.gif

Tell us your budget first :)

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=51254

PC Chips Syntax SKT A AGP Via KT266 DDR/SDR ATA 133 Sound/LAN/USB 2.0 upto a 2.6+ CPU Retail Box

£21.14 inc VAT



http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=29730

AMD ATHLON XP1900 266Mhz 256cache CPU - Palomino - OEM

£39.36 inc VAT



http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=34834

Coolermaster DP5-6J31C Fan AMD Approved Upto XP & MP 2100

£3.98 inc VAT


http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=20929

Ebuyer 256MB DDR266 PC2100 Extra Value RAM

£25.84 inc VAT



http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=51061

JNC 4JA 196(a) Aluminium Style Midi Case 400w PSU with Side Panel Window & Front FireWire

£17.88 inc


http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=51435

Excelstor 60Gb 7200rpm ATA100 OEM IDE with 3year Warranty


£42.61 inc VAT






Or a barebones system

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=51429

Asus Terminator Barebone PC System DDR Socket A Card Reader Modem/Lan CD-Rom

£99.53 inc VAT

Add £6 for the ebuyer 256 Ram

I dont have a budget really, as cheap as poss ;)

here's 1 not from ebuyer

with a cdrw as u'd no doubt want 1 for backing up ur pictures

http://www.vapochill.eclipse.co.uk/hexus/spot1.jpg

Monitor? Can't forget that www.josh.org.uk ;)

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Originally posted by blue..matt
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=51254

PC Chips Syntax SKT A AGP Via KT266 DDR/SDR ATA 133 Sound/LAN/USB 2.0 upto a 2.6+ CPU Retail Box

£21.14 inc VAT

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that's the motherboard i had sent to me twice, both times it was faulty. also you're best going for branded ram, eg crucial, kingston etc.

the guy has the monitor, and keyboard etc etc

think he might be using his old DVD/CDR aswell :)

;) I'd agree with much of the above except I'd also warn to avoid PC-Chips unless you are prepared for headaches. A great cheap mobo is the 400FSB capable Biostar/DabsV nForce2 for £37 at www.dabs.com . Has plenty of room for future upgrades or o/c'ing shoudl you/he so desire. For the CPU I agree that a Duron 1.6-1.8ghz are very well suited and great for the money. 256MB is fine but 512MB helps for photo editing etc as said and only costs you £25-30 more. Any fan rated just above the speed you're going to run is more than fine, Volcano 9 or Coolermaster Xdream are fine acheap adjustable fans if you want more (£10?). For the HD 60-80GB should cost you little more than 40GB and add a lot more life to the PC. For a cheap PC any case and PSU will do fine, it may be sharper on your hands and more flimsy but heck it's a cheap PC. CDROM come in around £10 now, CDRW or DVDROM around £25. You may not even need a floppy, esp if you are taking fromt eh old PC. Fopr a gfx card you can go onboard so long as gaming is no factor, otherwise a Rad9000-9200, GF-FX5200 are very fine cheap cards for a budget PC.

Do u have to stick to just buying from ebuyer because you could probably bring the price down a bit maybe only like a £10 but hey thats 4 pints.

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Originally posted by ©DinG©
Do u have to stick to just buying from ebuyer because you could probably bring the price down a bit maybe only like a £10 but hey thats 4 pints.

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what are you saying? there's somewhere cheaper than ebuyer? where? :)

;) Maybe ©DinG© meant better rather than cheaper. Somewhere better for known for customer care can save you a lot of headaches, problems, time and cash (in the long term).