just speccing a cheap PC for ginge to replace his 386 SX/25 (well, its old n shit anyway )

just a cheap n cheerful job really for browsing the net n stuff... this is what i put together:

XP2400+
512mb
266FSB mobo with sound+lan (cheap jobbie)
nice lookin case with 350w PSU

that comes to £126 delivered

then the other bits ive got kickin about i can give him for a few quid:

40gb HDD
Geforce 4 MX
16x CDRW

cant think of nout else he'll need...

wot you recon for a budget system?

 

totally depends what he wants to do with it

 

well hes quite happy with his utterly wank 200ish mhz thing with 32mb, 2gb hdd etc. etc.

 

Question for you Jim

My ropey old PC runs an 850mhz AMD Duron processor

Can I stick this straight into it or will it need another motherboard as well??

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=52134

 

i just speced for my mate

P3 1gig
32mg Geforce card
40 gig drive
new micro gigabyte mobo,
well nifty micro case
512 meg ram
on board sound

17" monitor
keyboard
infared mouse

Software:
XP pro
Offoce 2003
Autoroute
Photoshop 7
so far he has to confirm what else he wants

total cost:
£70 all in

 

pay for the licences did we?

 

gurnE, depends on what motherboard you have mate...

although to be honest its UNLIKELY that you have one good enuf

altho...

13quid for a mobo + 38quid for a 2.0ghz (XP 2400+) + 40quid for 512mb DDR266 ram (all plus vat) is rather cheap... and you'll notice a MASSIVE speed increase...

 

Where from???

 

who needs to pay when the internet says have them for free, I have soo many key generators they take up too much megs on my ftp