So my mum's PC needs an upgrade. She's using an 8-9 year old PC right now which is pretty much burnt out. All i need is: Motherboard (onboard sound preferably) CPU RAM case (w/psu if it comes with one, otherwise i have one i can use) Max budget i guess is £200, i'd rather it was around the £100-£150 mark. No gaming use, just web browsing, word/spreadsheet processing, a little bit of music and that's it. Thanks in advance.
CP-139-AM AMD Sempron 64 2600+ 1.6GHz (Socket 754) CPU - Retail (CP-139-AM) 1 £39.95 £39.95 MB-125-AS Asus K8N4-E nForce4 4X (Socket 754) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-125-AS) 1 £44.95 £44.95 MY-004-GL GeIL 512MB (2x256MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE5123200BHDC) (MY-004-GL) 1 £27.95 £27.95 CA-001-ES OcUK Value Estar Benz Case Silver With 350W PSU (CA-001-ES) 1 £24.95 £24.95 Subtotal £137.80 VAT £24.12 Total £161.92 This is actually not bad for how little it costs. Pretty pleased with this *edit* - Yeah I just realised that. Changed spec as needed.
I've gone with the 2800 Sempron as it has double the L2 cache of the 2600 and only costs about £5 more. The motherboard has onboard graphics and sound. 512mb Ram ought to be easily sufficient for the uses suggested and you could possibly get away with a cheaper case and PSU but I think getting a fairly decent one is less hassle overall. CP-138-AM AMD Sempron 64 2800+ 1.6GHz (Socket 754) CPU - Retail (CP-138-AM) £43.95 £43.95 MB-124-AS Asus K8V-MX VIA K8M800 Micro ATX (Socket 754) Motherboard (MB-124-AS) £34.95 £34.95 MY-003-GL GeIL 512MB PC3200 Value CAS2.5 (GE5123200B) (MY-003-GL) £26.95 £26.95 CA-023-AN Antec SLK1650B Black Quiet Mini Tower Case - 350W SmartPower PSU (CA-023-AN) £39.95 £39.95 Subtotal £145.80 Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £8.95 VAT £27.09 Total £181.84
try this one CP-130-AM AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-130-AM) £64.95 £64.95 MB-079-AB Abit UL8 ULi M1689 (Socket 939) Motherboard (MB-079-AB) £27.95 £27.95 MY-005-OK OcUK Value 512MB (2x256MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-005-OK) £24.95 £24.95 CA-001-AO AOpen H500A Midi Tower - 300W 24-Pin PSU (CA-001-AO) £39.95 £39.95 Subtotal £157.80 VAT £27.62 Total £185.42 Tad more expensive, no glaring mistakes lol SiriusB
Hey, we've all been there or at least I have As it stands now any of the above specifications will do fine, I'm somewhat surprised that you can get a socket 939 chip and system into the budget but it is possibly overkill(they all are for internet and word processing I suppose).
