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Just getting a ball park figure to a family friend for an entry level system without cutting corners. Was very surprised what can be done with £300, this is a perfectly useable system and a few quid extra would buy them a bigger hard drive or more RAM which are the weakest points other than integrated graphics. What do you think? Good value, or can you uncover better deals?

Foxconn S-809 Black/Silver midi case 400W PSU ATX
£19.95

Geil Value DDR2 1.0GB PC6400 Dual Channel memory kit (2 x 512mb) 800MHz (5-5-5-15) +Aluminium heat spreader, ATI Crossfire Ceritified
£22.99

AMD CPU AM2 Athlon 64 Dual Core 3800 Retail Box inc Fan Socket AM2 940 PIN (3yr Manufacturer's Warranty)
£45.51

Abit NF-M2S NVIDIA 6100/NF405 Motherboard, AMD AM2, Dual DDR2, mATX , SATA2, 7.1HD Audio, GeForce 6100 graphics, Motherboard
£31.10

Lite-on DH-20A1P-45C IDE 20x DL DVD +/-R/RW RAM Black bare drive +software
£15.99

17" BenQ FP71G+ 8ms Silver TFT Monitor (3yr Manufacturer's Warranty)
£83.45

80GB Seagate Barracuda SATA II 300 7200rpm 8MB cache Hard Disk Drive (Manufacturer's 5yr Warranty)
£21.99

Total Price Excluding VAT
£240.98

VAT @ 17.5%
£42.17

Total Price Including VAT
£283.15

All prices from Micro Direct on 29/05/07

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i would definetly say go for a bigger hard drive and before that a graphics card
a 7600gt is 63 here


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