On 30 Nov 2008, at 20:59, Ian Pascoe wrote:
Matt / Lee
thanks for the advice. I had wondered if the age of the system
would be it's own stumbling block, and certainly from what you guys
have said it probably is.
Oh well, looks like the drop in VAT, and the Xmas sales have come
just at the right time for me ....
Ian
Yep, components are so cheap now, and eBuyer.com are offering free
delivery when you spend over £50 (you have to choose the 5 working day
delivery option but usually the order is delivered within 2 or 3 days
anyway!).
You'd possibly find though that newer motherboards generally now only
have one IDE connector on board so you'd probably be worth picking up
a Serial ATA hard disk and DVD-Writer unless you already want to
connect existing drives to one IDE channel (but this will limit you to
the two devices).
I'd say you could pick up a Celeron Dual Core E1200 for about £35, a
suitable motherboard for another £40 (I'd avoid Foxconn though), 1GB
of DDR2 memory (Kingston memory is about £15 for a 1GB kit). A case
will cost about £15 with a cheapo power supply although you may want
to consider something a bit better (I would recommend the Trust power
supply at £17).
Here's what I'd go for if I was building a cheap system...
Processor - http://tinyurl.com/5uzldg - £34.25
Motherboard - http://tinyurl.com/63w69f - £37.94
Memory - http://tinyurl.com/5626so - £14.68
Power Supply - http://tinyurl.com/64kgl4 - £17.36
Case - http://tinyurl.com/5ras3u - £12.71
DVD writer - http://tinyurl.com/58e5zl - £13.69
250GB Hard Drive - http://tinyurl.com/49lree - £29.35 (turns out 250GB
is about £5 more than an 80GB drive!)
Extra SATA cable for DVD writer - http://tinyurl.com/6bdbo6 - £2.50
So for under £165 you'll have pretty much a new PC which will keep you
going for maybe another 8 years or so.
You could probably get a dual core Athlon X2 system for around the
same sort of price too if you'd rather go for an AMD based system over
an Intel one.
Rob
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