Best place for cheap components

[themelon]

I have rather stupidly given myself the task of building a PC based around a Semperon 2800 for £400 including the monitor, for someone at works kid.

Is this remotely possible or will I have to go back and charge more!!??

Roughly it wants to be:

512 Mb Ram
160 Gb HD
DTV Tuner Card
17 Inch TFT
A nice case with some 'cool blue lights'

Looking around I do not seem to be able to get it much cheaper than £430

It doesnt need to do much, just a Word Processing Homework, Internet PC for a student. Would be useful to have the TV Card but could remove at a push, just the 'want' freeview too.

Ive looked at Ebuyer and Novatech just two ive used before, ive never really been on a strict budget before

[marky]

Dead easy, but the monitor is the killer.
Have you browsed through Scan

[themelon]

Cheers, I had a look through Scan seems to be coming out a similar price.

Can get a TFT For about 100 to 120 quid, so i suppose the PC needs to come in at 300 quid, getting a decent case with a blue light is the killer there.

I can get a ready build PC for £250

With these specs:

AMD Sempron 3000 64 Bit Processor
512MB DDR400 PC3200 Single Channel Memory
160GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive
SiS High Performance Integrated Graphics & 8x AGP Slot
16x Dual Layer +R/-R/RW DVD burner
5.1 6-Channel Capable Sound
1 x RJ45 Network Port (10/100)
Novatech Keyboard & Mouse

Just lacking a decent Case and TV Card, I suppose if I could get a nice case and DTV Card for £50 that would do it.

Would have been nice to make a profit before Xmas but does not look possible!!

[David F]

For £200 quid I can spec better than that

Biostar or asrock mobo with nvidia 6100 integrated gfx
AM2 64 bit 3000
200 gig hdd
512 meg ddrII
DVD rw
case
costs me less than 200 quid to build

you can get a better case and just need a tv card so build costs to you is 300 quid tops

[marky]

Ive done a few with some of these cases, not the heavy wieght best but they look good

[r00t]

Thanks for the link marky.
Keep them coming, as my next venture is building a PC from the ground up.
Expect a "newb" buiders post coming soon; I have no clue at all about hardware.

[David F]

you buy cases from maplin? lol I spend 24 quid on cases for budget builds and there sound loads here http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/prod...at=209&brand=2

[themelon]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

For £200 quid I can spec better than that

Biostar or asrock mobo with nvidia 6100 integrated gfx
AM2 64 bit 3000
200 gig hdd
512 meg ddrII
DVD rw
case
costs me less than 200 quid to build

you can get a better case and just need a tv card so build costs to you is 300 quid tops

Where abouts do you generally get your kit from? Or is it a trade secret? That seems a very good price for £200 would be more than enough in that spec. The HDD is probably one of the main factors for downloading music. Other than that a K6-2 500 woukld probably do the job lol!

[David F]

thats cost to build price I dont retail them for that

[Flange]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

you buy cases from maplin? lol I spend 24 quid on cases for budget builds and there sound loads here http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/prod...at=209&brand=2

Are the PSU's any good in the budget cases? Would it be suitable for a new C2D system.

I'm asking because i want to build a new system on a tight budget. Although i would love an ASUS Vento Case,but they cost as much as the CPU

[David F]

The psu's are budget either they will be ok or they wont Id advise the purchase of a good psu whatever case you buy with a higher end system

[Flange]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

The psu's are budget either they will be ok or they wont Id advise the purchase of a good psu whatever case you buy with a higher end system

Yeah, i new that really. Can you recommend a decent PSU for about 40 quid?

[David F]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=CA-001-TG this will be fine if you run 1 gfx 1 or 2 hdd's and 1 or 2 optical

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=CA-009-HP is better but a tenner more

[Flange]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=CA-001-TG this will be fine if you run 1 gfx 1 or 2 hdd's and 1 or 2 optical

That sounds good. I'm looking to build a E6300 system with a Gig of ram and a midrange GFX card so i can play Doom 3 (I bought it when it was released but my current system does not do it justice..plenty of lag)

Budget is 500 quid but i'm gonna use the DVD/CD drive and case from my current system.

[David F]

easy then if its just a tower you want