Ed Renshaw
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Registered: 2nd Dec 99
Location: Lincoln
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A mate of mine has £220 to spend on a PC tower, which he will be using for the internet and gaming. If anyone can help, please post your best spec for £220.
Cheers.
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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base unit alone?
PC Chips M810DLMU SKT A DDR/SDRAM Video/Sound/LAN and Modem Motherboard
Athlon XP 2000+
512mb PC133 SDRAM
60GB ATA100 HDD
16x DVD drive
Nokia style ATX Midi Tower Case with 300w PSU
comes to £215
[Edited on 12-05-2003 by AustinPXX]
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digitalbanana
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£220 isnt worth the efort! Most game on the net will need a decent machine with a decent connection. that wont buy shit.
case - £40 -£50
Mobo - £90 -130 for anything worth having
poccessor - £50 - 500 depending on what u wanna spend and inetl or amd.
oops weve gone over the budget, and no HD, Modem, GFX card, monitor, PSU, RAM, Sound Card, Heatsink or OS!
NOT WORTH IT!
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K100RSA
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Registered: 2nd Apr 02
Location: Devon. drives: too fast
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£220 LOL will just about buy a case and cooler from me.
but they are very nice cases, 7 fans, 4 with variable speed and temperature read out etc on the front case.
oh and then you will have to have the in case CCFL lighting, oops over budget and you havent got the MB or processor yet.
but you do get a 420W PSU, and I can go bigger if needed.
http://www.visualux.com/onlinestore/acatalog/Computer_Cases.html
[Edited on 12-05-2003 by K100RSA]
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Ed Renshaw
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Registered: 2nd Dec 99
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As I said, it's not for me - it's for a chap at work. The only other thing he wanted was a CD-RW.
Cheers for your help AustinPXX, I will have a chat with him tomorrow and let you know.
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buckle247
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austins pc will easily hav enough power for gaming, 2ghz (best games only require 700mhz) 512mb sdram (again most games about 256) only prob is the graphics card will need changing, though you could get a better one for about £60 which wouldn't put him too far over budget.
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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you can get a geforce 4 mx440 64mb ddr for £39 now, so wont bed too bad.
that system does a lot of things easily, ive built and sold about 6 of em.
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