A little cousin of mine is in need of a new computer due to her current one giving up the ghost. As I'm a Mac head, I'm of no use to her recommending a good computer and so I was hoping you guys could help!

She does a lot of charity work : http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0...ll&siteid=5006 and has basically worn her current computer out with the amount of letters she sends out to prospective sponsors.

She can't afford much and so £500 is probably her limit.

So, what's the best value pc currently available for £500 or less? A monitor will need to be incorporated into the £500.

Sadly she can't wait for one to be built for her and so it needs to be available asap.

Any advice would be gratefully received!

Andy.

 

she could just fix whatevers wrong with hers? whats exactly has failed?

 

The computer's about 6 years old and is just too s-l-o-w to even bother trying to fix.

 

rally round for ppls spare parts! everyone has spare parts! it wont need a case or cable or mouse or kebaord etc etcc so u can just get the core parts (psu, motherboard, processor + fan, ram)

 

I've got the following parts if they'd be any use. Gladly post them if you can cover postage.

1 x 256mb PC2100 stick of RAM (came with a Dell PC)

1 x Power Supply (came with a Mesh PC)

1 x Sound Blaster Live Sound Card

Marc

 

you could also build a half decent PC for £500 if you had the time.....get a cheap monitor off Ebay and you're laughing....

 

I got http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ME:B:EOAB:UK:6 off E-bay as a replacement for my work computer which was an old Pentium II 350. Excellent machine, arrived within one working day. Got a 17" monitor separately, total was under £300 plus delivery.

 

Thanks for the advice guys!
And thanks very much for the offer of the parts - it's very kind of you!

Sadly not only does she not have the time to have one built, but I wouldn't have the foggiest of how to do it either...

I was looking more for an off the shelf computer that will be available straight away.

Any other recommendations?

 

www.europc.co.uk has some cracking deals
the guys on here sometimes, he owns a scooby

 

even from places like dixons you can get an 2.2 gig cpu, nforce motherboard with built in graphics card, dvd, cdrw and 17 inch monitor for 500 quid