Spec me £300 if your bored

Magic_x_uk · 17 Mar 2006 at 13:17

Hi, someone at work has asked me to build him a computer but only has around £300 available. Wants to play a few games, general surfing the net. Not a great deal more, listen to some music etc.

If your bored and have nothing to do and fancy doing a quick spec or two.
bear in mind, he has nothing at all yet.

So exclude printers etc, Just bare bones, crt monitor i would have thought, cheap speakers, keyboard and mouse set up. Perhaps a 50K modem until and if he decides to go adsl etc. Would also need a OS, XP home should do fine.

Cheers

trojan698 · 17 Mar 2006 at 13:38

Everything for £300 ? Struggling... but i'll have a go

trojan698 · 17 Mar 2006 at 13:42

Nope, I ended up £200 over budget

lee87 · 17 Mar 2006 at 13:58

This is the best I can do, it's not great but it should play some games on the lowest quality.

CA-001-OP Optronix Midi Tower Case Bundle Kit (Keyboard, Mouse & Speakers included) - Black/Silver 400w PSU (CA-001-OP) 1
£25.95 £25.95
CP-139-AM AMD Sempron 64 2600+ 1.6GHz (Socket 754) CPU - Retail (CP-139-AM) 1
£41.95 £41.95
MO-006-HY Hyundai ImageQuest Q770S 17'' Perfectly Flat CRT Monitor - Black/Silver (MO-006-HY) 1
£64.95 £64.95
OS-001-MS Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) (OS-001-MS) 1
£49.95 £49.95
HD-025-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD040GJ 40GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-025-SA) 1
£25.95 £25.95
CD-002-SA Samsung SH-D162 DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM (CD-002-SA) 1
£10.95 £10.95
MB-054-GI Gigabyte K8N51GMF nForce 6100 Micro ATX (Socket 754) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-054-GI) 1
£39.95 £39.95
MD-000-OK OcUK Value V.92 PCI Modem - Retail (MD-000-OK) 1
£5.50 £5.50
MY-002-OK OcUK Value 512MB PC3200 184pin DDR Memory (MY-002-OK) 1
£19.95 £19.95
Subtotal £285.10
VAT £49.90
Total £335.00

l33t_p3t3 · 17 Mar 2006 at 15:46

He might be better off buying something 2nd hand.
£300 isn't much to work with, especially if including monitor & OS.

Dace · 17 Mar 2006 at 16:32

l33t_p3t3 said:
He might be better off buying something 2nd hand.
£300 isn't much to work with, especially if including monitor & OS.

Agreed. I managed to spec up a full Intel system with XP Home and a 15" TFT from a major OEM company for £280 including delivery last week. I'd look towards doing the same.

Alternately, choose this for far less for your money:

OS-001-MS Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) (OS-001-MS)
£49.95 £49.95
MO-006-HY Hyundai ImageQuest Q770S 17'' Perfectly Flat CRT Monitor - Black/Silver (MO-006-HY)
£64.95 £64.95
MB-054-GI Gigabyte K8N51GMF nForce 6100 Micro ATX (Socket 754) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-054-GI)
£39.95 £39.95
CP-139-AM AMD Sempron 64 2600+ 1.6GHz (Socket 754) CPU - Retail (CP-139-AM)
£41.95 £41.95
MY-002-OK OcUK Value 512MB PC3200 184pin DDR Memory (MY-002-OK)
£19.95 £19.95
CA-001-OP Optronix Midi Tower Case Bundle Kit (Keyboard, Mouse & Speakers included) - Black/Silver 400w PSU (CA-001-OP)
£25.95 £25.95
HD-085-MD Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB 6K040L0 ATA-133 2MB Cache - OEM (HD-085-MD)
£22.95 £22.95
CD-070-SA Samsung SH-C522C CD-ROM (Black) - OEM (CD-070-SA)
£7.95 £7.95
Subtotal £273.60
VAT £47.88
Total £321.48

Soul Rider · 17 Mar 2006 at 18:54

Dace said:
Agreed. I managed to spec up a full Intel system with XP Home and a 15" TFT from a major OEM company for £280 including delivery last week. I'd look towards doing the same.

Alternately, choose this for far less for your money:

OS-001-MS Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) (OS-001-MS)
£49.95 £49.95
MO-006-HY Hyundai ImageQuest Q770S 17'' Perfectly Flat CRT Monitor - Black/Silver (MO-006-HY)
£64.95 £64.95
MB-054-GI Gigabyte K8N51GMF nForce 6100 Micro ATX (Socket 754) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-054-GI)
£39.95 £39.95
CP-139-AM AMD Sempron 64 2600+ 1.6GHz (Socket 754) CPU - Retail (CP-139-AM)
£41.95 £41.95
MY-002-OK OcUK Value 512MB PC3200 184pin DDR Memory (MY-002-OK)
£19.95 £19.95
CA-001-OP Optronix Midi Tower Case Bundle Kit (Keyboard, Mouse & Speakers included) - Black/Silver 400w PSU (CA-001-OP)
£25.95 £25.95
HD-085-MD Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB 6K040L0 ATA-133 2MB Cache - OEM (HD-085-MD)
£22.95 £22.95
CD-070-SA Samsung SH-C522C CD-ROM (Black) - OEM (CD-070-SA)
£7.95 £7.95
Subtotal £273.60
VAT £47.88
Total £321.48

I see all these, and they aren't bad systems for the money, but guys why not save them a few more quid and get a 15" monitor instead? That should bring it under budget...

Other than that not a lot else you can do.

Magic_x_uk · 17 Mar 2006 at 21:45

Cheers guys, i realise the money is a problem. You know what these young un's are like. What the best but dont want to pay. Have no idea how much things are. They see a advert on TV for eg: Dell for £299 including, monitor, printer, holiday for 2 in the algarve, new car etc and they think thats the best computer out there....

I'll have a word with him and tell him to either save more or settle for something that he could slowly when money allows upgrade.

Cheers all of you

appreciated