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killah
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My mate's had this really really old pc, and wants a new one especially as he is about to start uni. I know fair amount about pcs but nothing compared to you guys, therefore rather i tell him what to buy (he dosent knw ANYTHING about pcs), i am gonna ask you guys for recommendations.
The budget is £600. The use will be mainly word, and he loves running millions of windows at the same time, so i think something like dual core, and to run those programmes simultaniously i think he will need alot of ram, so something in the range of 1 DDR2 gig.
any recomendations???
p.s. i havent been in praccys lately cuase i've been deprived of a desk (sis moved out got my own room finally YAY!!), so hopefully i'll see you guys this monday.
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you could go with dual core but if hes only running windows apps like word and internet explorer it seems a waste of money, a single core intel is decent enuff for loads of windows, but yeah lots of memory, if his budget is 600 quid and it's not going to be a major gaming machine you could easily make one with 2-4gig of ram, not that it would ever be needed.
*shrugs*
600 quid nowadays gets you a really nifty machine for any use...
my uni machine use to be a p120mhz machine with a 4 gig hdd!!!!
oh and a 8 meg graphics card
tbh Killah the guy could go either way with dual core and a gig of ram for well under 600 quid, so choice is his.
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I would suggest something APPROXIMATING this. The individual components could be checked and specd, use www.tomshardware.com to find the best components by review but this will give you a pretty mean spec machine for that price (with the OS running on the 80GB drive and the data stored on the 400gb).
I made the spec up from www.scan.co.uk
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LN14982 |
Intel Pentium D 945 Socket 775, PreslerCore, 2x3.4 GHz, 2MB x 2 Cache, Retail |
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£98.99 |
£116.31 |
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LN15503 |
ASUS P5LD2-SE/C i945P, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 400/533/667, SATA II, ATX |
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£55.39 |
£65.08 |
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LN7591 |
1GB Corsair Value Select, DDR2 PC4200 (533), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12 |
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£69.42 |
£81.57 |
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LN12780 |
80 Gb Seagate ST3808110AS Barracuda 7200.9, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache, NCQ, 9.5 ms |
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£26.69 |
£31.36 |
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LN13121 |
400 Gb Seagate ST3400633AS Barracuda 7200.9, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.2 ms, NCQ |
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£88.49 |
£103.98 |
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LN13748 |
256Mb Leadtek 7900GT Standard, PCI-E (x16), Mem 1320 MHz, GPU 450 MHz, 24 Pipes, Dual DVI-I/HDTV |
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£137.39 |
£161.43 |
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£476.37 |
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£12.29 |
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£85.51 |
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£574.17 | |
Edited by Demonboy on 11 September 2006 at 8:27am
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I'd say go for an AMD rather then a intel, but the choice is yours.
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killah
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Deamon that is one hell of a pc for that price, however need to consider some other things.
1. A monitor and i was looking at the packard bell one, my cousin has it and is fantastic
2. The case and the cables and things.
Hes got a cd writer, needs a dvd writer i was thinking of the sony one.
Also I was thinking, why dont have a cheaper graphics card, because he wont be needing that?
MONITOR
DVD WRITER
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nice screen... the dvd writer too.
Sorry about that, I assumed you were taking components from an old pc so didnt need screen, case, kbd, mouse etc. You could drop the processor spec and maybe reduce the storage disk size to 320gb (£65 only) or only use 1 disk, sup to you.
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killah
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Yea, i think i will do that, i am gonna take my time on this, when i'm done with it i will show you guys the components and specs, and then tell me what you think.
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