Newbie Homebuilt

[gabriel123]

Hi guys would like to ask the advice of the pros here!

Am considering to purchase a good but cheap computer lets say in the area of 250pounds excluding screen.

Did some researching around and one of the many possibilities of a set up is:

ASUS M2N4-SLI
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ AM2
1 GB DDR2 667 (2x512)
Asus Nvidia 7300GS 256MB PCI-E

Is it a good setup? Any other suggestions? are there any better setups?
sorry for the questions but thanks

 

[gabriel123]

250pounds is around 400dollards of 375euros

you think an nvidia 7600 or an ati radeon x1600 pro 256?

btw any other suggestible setups (amd or intel)?
thanks alot

 

[yas]

I think you should just buy a normal pc. Look around and you should be able to find a good deal which would probably turn out cheaper

 

[Flewis]

How about....

Lite-On 16X DVD+/-RW/RAM black internal IDE Oem £18.08

160 Gb Western Digital WD1600JS Caviar SE, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache, 8.9 ms £36.30

ASUS M2N-MX , NF430, S AM2, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, uATX £43.43

Asus TA-37 Midi Tower Case White Panel/Black Body with 360W aPFC PSU £28.78

512MB Aeneon Major, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-12 £36.41

AMD AM2 Athlon 64 3200 Orleans Core, 2.0GHz, 512KB Cache, Retail £52.28

256Mb Sapphire Radeon X1600Pro PCI-E(x16) 12Pipes 800MHz GDDR2 500MHz GPU D-Sub/DVI-I/HDTV £54.57


all comes in at £283.86 from scan.co.uk including postage, but you can save the postage with this link

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=1482

That would be £12 less, so all for about £270

could put 1Gb RAM in for another £35, might want a few case fans too

hope this helps

 

[mesarectifier]

Buying a system at that price is really limiting, as I'm sure you know.

Perhaps wait out until you can do a 'proper' build - as a general rule I really don't think you should build with anything less than a gigabyte of RAM right now.

For sure ditch anything that might cost more like an SLi board....perhaps even a smaller hard drive, or consider reusing your current one if you have one?

Check eBuyer + Komplett if you're in this stage of penny-pinching, you might save a few quid.

 

[gabriel123]

thanks guys! you are a life saver flewis!

got an hdd and cdrom thus we go to 230!amazing

 

[yas]

Yup thats a great list Flewis

 

[gabriel123]

a last question asus m2n-mx or the a Abit KN9 Ultra they have the same price!

thanks again guys!