thirtynine. Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Right, so I am building a pc from scratch on a strict budget. Ive been looking fro cheap buy decent graphics cards but I have no idea where to start, I found this on play http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/3308701/Sapphire-Radeon-X1550-512MB-PCI-E-Graphics-Card/Product.html anygood? Also anyone have any suggestions? my price range is around 50 quid. Please and Thank You. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=589321 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=519985 Those two are pretty good and only a few quid over budget. Out of curiosity whats you're budget for the whole build? And whats the rest of the spec like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirtynine. Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 Thanks for helping out man. I really want to keep it under 250£ if i can, but im not to sure if i will be able too, rest of the specs are mostly undecided as of yet but core duo, 2gig of ram, is the basics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Jeeze, i hope you aren't wanting to play Crysis on this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirtynine. Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 Jeeze, i hope you aren't wanting to play Crysis on this Im saving crysis for about 10 years time when I can afford the damn specs :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 £250 is very tight, just tried it myself and i struggled tbh. £41.95 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (2.1GHz) Socket AM2 Energy Efficient L2 1MB (2x512KB) Cache OEM Processor (1 @ 41.95ea.) [133145] £35.12 - ASUS M2N-X nForce 520 Socket AM2 6 channel audio ATX Motherboard (1 @ 35.12ea.) [132276] £39.99 - OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 4-4-4-15 PLATINUM XTC with LIFETIME WARRANTY (1 @ 39.99ea.) [116755] £33.58 - Seagate ST3160815AS 160GB Hard Drive 7200RPM SATAII/300 8MB Cache - OEM (1 @ 33.58ea.) [122660] £16.8 - NEC Optiarc AD-7170S-0S 18x DVD±RW/DL/RAM Serial ATA Silver - OEM (1 @ 16.80ea.) [125209] £57.99 - Point Of View 7600GT 256mb DDR3 DVI HDTV TV Out PCI-E Graphics Card Includes the Official Ratatouille Game limited offer (1 @ 57.99ea.) [106578] £21.46 - Antec Basiq Power 350W ATX 12V PSU (1 @ 21.46ea.) [114928] £10.99 - Casecom 6630 Black Midi Tower Case With Front Panel USB2.0/Audio - No PSU (1 @ 10.99ea.) [119589] Net Total: £N/A VAT: £N/A Gross Total: £257.88 After tax thats £20 over budget, but the case is very cheap + crappy and the power supply ain't great either. You could do with either saving up a little bit more cash (£50 or so) or dropping the graphics card and using integrated graphics until you can afford a graphics card. I'll have a blast for you on a few other sites tomorrow if you want, sometimes you can pick up a bargain by shopping around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirtynine. Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 Yeah,250 is an Ideal price, i can afford to go ove budget bu 100/50 quid I just really dont want too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Scan have some pretty good deals on Today Only, you'd have to order by mid-day tomorrow though. AMD Athlon X2 4200+ CPU and a Foxconn MCP61SM2MA-ERS2H mATX Motherboard for £61.09 2GB of Corsair PC2-5400 RAM for £26.44 256MB HIS Radeon X1650XT for £64.04 Add in an Optiarc DVD-RW, 160GB Samsung Spinpoint Hard Drive and an ASUS case/300W PSU combo and its coming out at £246.49 inc delivery. You can also get free delivery if you sign up to the hexus.net forums or the avforums.com and make 20+ posts (you'd need to do so by midnight though, or you won't get free delivery tomorrow). Will save you another tenner. As with the one last night though, pump any extra cash you can in to the case and PSU. They ain't great, im not sure i'd trust a PSU that cheap. If you get free delivery and can put an extra £20 in to the system then you could get a decent case (which will make building easier) and a better PSU (which is more reliable). £270-ish could get you this spec with an Antec Sonata II or III case, both of which are cracking and have very good power supplies installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stefkov Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 Thought I'd steal this thread because its kinda what I want. Does anyone know of a website, fo noobs, to start to learn about building pcs? Like just a website that tells you everything. kthxbai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/ The guide on that site is a bit old, but the forums are great! It's fairly simple though, if you buy the right parts (the hard part) then the motherboard instruction manual will pretty much walk you through the rest. Theres a really good video that i watched before building mine, will find it and post it up. It's basically some bloke from a computer site putting together his PC and walking you through what he is doing each step of the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stefkov Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 cheers mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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