cheapest basic ebuyer system

[blue..matt]

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

[joshwa]

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:

[gamezfreak]

Tell us your budget first

[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



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

[blue..matt]

I dont have a budget really, as cheap as poss

[da_ging]

here's 1 not from ebuyer

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

[gamezfreak]

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

[joshwa]

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

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.

[blue..matt]

the guy has the monitor, and keyboard etc etc

think he might be using his old DVD/CDR aswell

[Austin]

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.

[©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.

[joshwa]

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.

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

[Austin]

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).