Hi there, A colleague has asked me to put together a PC for him - mainly for web surfing, sorting through his photos etc. I'm a bit out of the loop as far as hardware goes so I figured this would be the place to ask for advice. His budget is around the £450 mark - that must include a "nice telly" aka monitor (his words not mine ). Putting it together isn't a problem, if someone could list me some components from EBuyer or the likes, that would be champion. Cheers
How is this for a starter Memory: 2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800) Case: Coolermaster Centurion RC-532 PSU: 530W Hiper HPU-4M530 Monitor (Telly): 19" Hyundai IT BlueH HM19WBlack Widescreen, 1440x900 CPU: AMD Phenom™ X3 8450, Toliman Core, Socket AM2+, 2.1GHz Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H, AMD 780G, S AM2+ Microsoft Basic Black Value Pack Optical Mouse & Keyboard Bundle At Scan this lot should come in just under budget. Might be worth keeping an eye out for 790GX motherboards. They should be showing up in UK stores soon.
make RAM 4GB, and go for a duel core Intel, e8200 or e4500. for mobo, any cheap G43 board will do. you also forgot hard disk drive. something like 250GB will be enough
could get it cheaper off the shelf, have a look around on aria, ebuyer or overclockers at pre built machines, or bundle offers.
For a gaming system I would agree but just for surfing and photos I would expect 2GB to do the job Yup a Intel board would do the job, I suggested AMD for the better integrated graphics Doh and a DVD drive
AMD 4850e CPU AMD 780G or Nvidia 8200 chipset motherboard 2GB of memory Decent SATA hard drive and big TFT for opening many windows. Job done, cheap as chips and nippy enough for anything but hardcore gaming.
