PC for £250?

[Guest2]

It's lovely, my gf has one, but it's a netbook not a laptop - very small screen, a bit too small for her mum to see comfortable - in her 60's!

Find a big old monitor for free or £10 and plug it into it. Job done.

Portability and a big screen.

edit - I see you say no monitor is required - Plug that into it and away you go.

If you also plug the keyboard and mouse in then your GFs mum wont even notice its a laptop

 

[thingemajib]

AMD Sempron (~£30)
Cheap and cheerful 785G socket mobo (~£70)
2GB DDR2 (~£50)
Corsair400W PSU (~£40) - could probs get a smaller PSU in a case/psu combo if you look around.
Asus TA-861 Case OR Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower (~£24-27)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB HDD (~£32)

Total Cost: £246 Max

I can get some links for you later if you want.

That, but the 50 quid asus 760G board. spend the difference on an athlon II (~45-50 quid. id look around for a cheap deal on the 280, but OC only stock the 290 upwards now). The sempron is a great little chip (i used to have one), but at the end of the day, its still a single core and it did show from time to time. The athlon should be more snappier in everyday use.

edit: just realised that board uses DDR3, but you can find a 2gig stick of ddr3 for 50quid. google shoppings your friend...

 

[Cookeh]

That, but the 50 quid asus 760G board. spend the difference on an athlon II (~45-50 quid. id look around for a cheap deal on the 280, but OC only stock the 290 upwards now). The sempron is a great little chip (i used to have one), but at the end of the day, its still a single core and it did show from time to time. The athlon should be more snappier in everyday use.

edit: just realised that board uses DDR3, but you can find a 2gig stick of ddr3 for 50quid. google shoppings your friend...

But then you dont get integrated graphics

 

[Gary*]

C'mon Super, I could have linked to that site too but I chose not to.

 

[PermaBanned]

Oh yeah, forgot about the URL bar...

 

[Guest2]

I dont think there's much point in messing around building one to be honest. NC10, plug into existing monitor, keyboard and mouse and you're away.

Also some of these builds dont include a graphics card at first glance

 

[NathWraith]

Seriously guys, no competiter screens. Even with the URL it isn't hard to tell who's site it is.

Back on topic, the "Primo Drone" is the best bet you have really unless you want 2nd hand gear.

 

[PermaBanned]

Seriously guys, no competiter screens. Even with the URL it isn't hard to tell who's site it is.

Back on topic, the "Primo Drone" is the best bet you have really unless you want 2nd hand gear.

Is it an advert if it doesn't have a name? Would be pretty pointless, and OCUK doesn't even try to cater for the ultra low end.

Primo Drone? Wouldn't recommend it.

Black Knight Micro ATX case
OcUK Value 450W PSU
Onboard integrated NVIDIA GeForce 7025 GPU

Especially as the OP seems to want to build it. It's really worth stretching a bit more though...

Athlon II X3 435 - £60
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H - £70
2GB DDR3 - £45
Corsair CX 400W - £35
500GB WD HDD - £35
Samsung 22x DVD Writer SATA - £15
Coolermaster Elite 330 - £25
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2 - £15

Comes to £300, but i may have rounded it a bit too much. Just to prove a point, this is pretty much the cheapest stuff on OCUK worth having:

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel (KHX8500D2K2/4G) £76.99
(£65.52) £76.99
(£65.52)
**B Grade** Gigabyte GA-M750SLI-DS4 Nforce 750a (Socket AM2/AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£59.57) £69.99
(£59.57)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 7850+ Black Edition 2.80GHz (Socket AM2+) - OEM £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-400CXUK) £38.99
(£33.18) £38.99
(£33.18)
Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £26.99
(£22.97) £26.99
(£22.97)
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/775/1156) £15.99
(£13.61) £15.99
(£13.61)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.91) £13.99
(£11.91)
Sub Total : £274.82
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £50.15
Total : £336.72

 

[Cookeh]

Seriously guys, no competiter screens. Even with the URL it isn't hard to tell who's site it is.

Back on topic, the "Primo Drone" is the best bet you have really unless you want 2nd hand gear.

Remind me how the Drone is better than what Super and I have been coming up with?

 

[Cookeh]

Superewza, with regards to last spec, I don't think 4GB of RAM will be needed for the uses of it
Don't think much will be done in terms of overclocking either

Please correct me if Im wrong though Gray

 

[PermaBanned]

Superewza, with regards to last spec, I don't think 4GB of RAM will be needed for the uses of it
Don't think much will be done in terms of overclocking either

Please correct me if Im wrong though Gray

So show me where there are any 2GB kits on OCUK? I completely agree though, and as i say i was just proving a point.

The cooler isn't for overclocking, it's for keeping it cool and for keeping noise to a minimum. Really helps make a system last longer too.

 

[Gray]

Superewza, with regards to last spec, I don't think 4GB of RAM will be needed for the uses of it
Don't think much will be done in terms of overclocking either

Please correct me if Im wrong though Gray

Ha! No, I don't think she'll be dabbling into oc'ing! She literally just surfs the web and reads pretty poor jokes in e-mails that her brother has sent her!

4GB is overkill too, I'm sure 2GB will be fine, even with graphics memory shared.

I don't think she'll be rendering any complex 3d models soon or encoding hd movies