Kevin Groat

Nothing fancy, anything from a P3 1 ghz upwards, just needs to be able to run XP and browse the net using broadband. Already have broadband modem, not a great downloader or on-line gamer.
Any suggestions welcome.

Kevin.

cong

spend about £200 if your not worried about graphics and sound you can get a motherboard with built in sound graphics, modem, lan, 6 usb, ram, hard drive, processor

PC Chips MB-825lMU SKT A KM266 DDR Integrated Savage 4/Sound/ LAN & USB 2.0 Motherboard - £30

AMD ATHLON XP2400+ 266MHZ FSB 256Cache - £50

Corsair (VS256MB266) 256MB DDR266 PC2100 - £30

Excelstor ESJ360 60gb 7200rpm ATA100 - £40

Deluxworld Dog Case 350watt White - £15

Sony 16x40 IDE BLACK DVD-ROM Drive - £20

total under £200

GC8

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/sto...1&tm=undefined

£399.99 or £360 if you know someone who works for DSG. This is hard to beat, eMachines are steady and relaible; they use a Ghost recovery instead of flakey hidden sector recovery like PB and Compaq/HP and replacement recovery media is free. DSG has priced this machine to match entry level kit from firms like Tiny/Time, its way superior and the service proposition is hard to better; in my opinion, of course.

Simon

Scoobs_4ever

You can find the same spec as the pc world from DELL for lots less.

It takes some searching but you can get a base unit for less than £150 (inc delivery, VAT and P&P) (Celeron 2.4 Ghz, 256Mb ram, 40Gb hdd, dvd/cdrw, XP home, works 7.0, speakers, keyboard, mouse etc etc).

You can then add a 17" monitor for £59+VAT or a 15" flatscreen for £159 +VAT.

If you need help finding these, then email me as per profile (20£ fee should cover it).
Andy.

lightning101

LG 52x32x52x IDE DRIVE - OEM 051700138
£19.79
£19.79


JNC 4JA-520 Midi Tower Case w/350W PSU and Blue Side Window 051361417
£14.90
£14.90


Western Digital Caviar 120Gb 7200rpm EIDE Hard Drive - OEM0274861431
£49.99
£49.99



Kingston 512MB 400MHz DDR Non-ECC CL3 (3-4-4) DIMM04530588
£49.99
£49.99


Gigabyte GA-k8vt800 S754 VIA K8T800 Sound LAN USB 2.0 FSB800 ATA133 Retail Box
055012
2
£54.28
£54.28


AMD Athlon 64bit 3000+ 754pin/512 L2cache Retail Boxed with 3 Year Warranty CPU
058431
1
£141.16
£141.16



Alps 1.44 Silver Floppy Drive 3.5 Inch Internal - OEM
055687
901
£4.02
£4.02



Hightech ATI Radeon 9600SE 128MB TV-Out DVI Retail Box
055195
18
£47.92
£47.92

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Cart Total:
£382.05




SubTotal:
£387.04

VAT:
£67.77

Total:
£454.81

cong

"Nothing fancy, anything from a P3 1 ghz upwards, just needs to be able to run XP and browse the net using broadband. Already have broadband modem, not a great downloader or on-line gamer"

he said cheap.....................so should be less then £200 i suppose........ £454 a bit too much i think escpecially with the xp64...looks like youve done a lot of shopping in your cart....hehe

Kevin Groat

Cheers guys, Scoobs 4ever, where on earth can you find a Dell base unit for that price? I've been through their clearance stuff and get nowt less than £450. Tried to email as per profile but SNET won't allow it?? email me on groatkj@v21mail.co.uk.

Thanks

lightning101

Cong - that was in reference to £400 for an all in one motherboard celeron from PCWORLD (grits teeth). Which is only £54 less and look at the spec of that, and that is just our receptionists machine.

You can also by from blowout deals sections for less than £200 assembled.

GC8

Will you tell me as well Scoobs, as Im not the corporate boy that I might appear.....

Simon

lightning101

How about a laptop.


http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=58164
£283+vat

• Transmeta® 1 GigaPro CPU, 512KB L2 cache on die Low Voltage
• 256MB SDRAM
• 14.1" XGA TFT-LCD with 1024 x 768 resolution
• High performance 128bit 3D graphics engine up to 125MHz 3D engine clock speed On board graphic memory 16MB
• DVD-Rom Drive
• 20Gb Hard Disk Drive
• Onboard RealTek 8100B full duplex 10/100 Base-T Ethernet
• Built-in 56K / V.90 PCTel AC-Link modem
• Built-in SIR transceiver module, IrDA 1.3 standard compliant up to 4.0Mbps
• Built-in two high quality stereo speakers with chamber and mic
• Synaptics touch pad with scrolling up/down button
• USb x 4
• BIOS password protection and Kensington Lock hole provided
• Dimension: 210 x 78 x 29 mm
• Weight: 3.20kg
• Us Keyboard

I/O Interface:

• 1 x Parallel Port
• 1 x RJ-11 jack for Modem
• 1 x MIC-In jack
• 1 x 3-pin DC-In jack for AC adapter
• 1 x External VGA port
• 1 x RJ-45 for Ethernet
• 1 x headphone jack
• 1 x SIR port
• 4 x USB 1.1 ports
• 1 x Serial port

Acessories included:-
Phone Cord, AC Adapter, Power Cord, Quick Guide and Driver CD Title

Scoobs_4ever

Kev & Simon, check your private messages.

GC8

Thankyou

Kevin Groat

Likewise, Dell looking good.