For all of you that know...

[bigdavecox90]

More than me.

Put me together the best PC you can for about £250-£300.

Not used for gaming, already have a monitor.

Just mainly for Internet use, but would love it to be as high spec for that price just incase.

Cheers guys. :)

[Jordy]

Would you need an OS or are you sorting that? If so, what OS would you want (OSs are one of the most expensive things in a build for 250 quid)

[bigdavecox90]

Would you need an OS or are you sorting that? If so, what OS would you want (OSs are one of the most expensive things in a build for 250 quid)

Well I'm used to using Windows, but wouldn't mind OSX if possible?

[scottish]

Do you need keyboard/mouse?

[bigdavecox90]

Do you need keyboard/mouse?

No, already got those.

[scottish]

vista/xp?

[bigdavecox90]

vista/xp?

Vista if possible.

[Recursion]

You can't legally or easily use OS X, on a non-Apple branded computer :P

Anywho, Vista will be about £80, so thats one of the most expensive parts :P

[scottish]

Coolermaster Elite 330 Black Case With CM eXtreme Power 460W PSU *SPECIAL OFFER* 135101
£49.99

LG GH20NS15 20X SATA DVD1RW/DL/RAM - Black Bare Drive OEM
145869
£13.85

PNY 8400GS 256MB DDR2 VGA DVI HDTV out PCI-E Graphics Card
145354
£24.32

Maxtor STM3160815AS 160GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache - OEM
129570
£26.24

XFX nForce 630i GeForce 7100 Socket 775 onboard Graphics 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard
150444
£32.06

OCZ 2GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 5-6-6-15 Value Series Memory with Lifetime Warranty
142376
£25.00

Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 Socket 775 2.2GHz 800FSB Retail Boxed Processor
139584
£52.67

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium -SP1- Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 32-bit - English
123052
£69.99

With that is free delivery up to 5 days and totals £294.12


However if you may need some wires (SATAx2 for DVD and Hard drive) then that's

(2x)Belkin Serial ATA 2.0 7-pin Cable (Red) 0.6m
057651
£10.37

Which is then £304.49


All from ebuyer.com

[bigdavecox90]

Coolermaster Elite 330 Black Case With CM eXtreme Power 460W PSU *SPECIAL OFFER* 135101
£49.99

LG GH20NS15 20X SATA DVD1RW/DL/RAM - Black Bare Drive OEM
145869
£13.85

PNY 8400GS 256MB DDR2 VGA DVI HDTV out PCI-E Graphics Card
145354
£24.32

Maxtor STM3160815AS 160GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache - OEM
129570
£26.24

XFX nForce 630i GeForce 7100 Socket 775 onboard Graphics 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard
150444
£32.06

OCZ 2GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 5-6-6-15 Value Series Memory with Lifetime Warranty
142376
£25.00

Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 Socket 775 2.2GHz 800FSB Retail Boxed Processor
139584
£52.67

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium -SP1- Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 32-bit - English
123052
£69.99

With that is free delivery up to 5 days and totals £294.12


However if you may need some wires (SATAx2 for DVD and Hard drive) then that's

(2x)Belkin Serial ATA 2.0 7-pin Cable (Red) 0.6m
057651
£10.37

Which is then £304.49


All from ebuyer.com

Thanks mate, I will look into it further when I get home later.

[scottish]

The numbers in bold are quickfind codes btw :P If you're wondering ;)

[N!ck]

Case & PSU: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135101 - £50
CPU: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145258 - £80
RAM: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/116755 - £27
HDD: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131214 - £28
GPU: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126983 - £40
DVD-RW: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142274 - £16
Mobo: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/113965 - £49

That is £290 not including an operating system.

If you buy an operating system get either a 32 or 64 bit version of Vista Home Premium, costing around £70 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/123052 or http://www.ebuyer.com/product/123067


I ended up building like a gaming style PC for an UBER low budget lol.

The only way to crack the proce down more really would be to go with an AMD Athlon x2 system as these are much better performing CPUs then Pentium Ds (as in the system psoted by Sc0tteh) for a similar price. Also to go with a lesser graphicws card, but the one i posted is
currently on offer and very good value for money at the moment.

Summary of the specs i posted:

2.53GHz Core 2 Duo CPU
2GB RAM
250Gb hard drive
Nvidia 8600GTS graphics card

[bigdavecox90]

Case & PSU: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135101 - £50
CPU: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145258 - £80
RAM: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/116755 - £27
HDD: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131214 - £28
GPU: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126983 - £40
DVD-RW: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142274 - £16
Mobo: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/113965 - £49

That is £290 not including an operating system.

If you buy an operating system get either a 32 or 64 bit version of Vista Home Premium, costing around £70 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/123052 or http://www.ebuyer.com/product/123067


I ended up building like a gaming style PC for an UBER low budget lol.

The only way to crack the proce down more really would be to go with an AMD Athlon x2 system as these are much better performing CPUs then Pentium Ds (as in the system psoted by Sc0tteh) for a similar price. Also to go with a lesser graphicws card, but the one i posted is
currently on offer and very good value for money at the moment.

Summary of the specs i posted:

2.53GHz Core 2 Duo CPU
2GB RAM
250Gb hard drive
Nvidia 8600GTS graphics card

Thanks mate :D

[N!ck]

Thanks mate :D

If that is too much (remember you may need to add the price of an operating system), then i'll spec up an AMD system for you.