Luke Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Right me and my brother want to buy a new desktop for our bedroom. We don't really need it to do much other than msn, music, internet, undemanding games. Not really sure on the budget perhaps £200 or so (maybe a bit more). I've been looking at those customs on ebay and they look good. Does anyone have any ideas of what specs I should get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanchez Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Check out this thread. http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19101 Another plan is to look at HotUKDeals as they frequently have very competent Dell computers at £200-250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 It really depends what sort of games you're wanting to play. You're not going to get a lot for £200 if you're needing a monitor too... A decent sized monitor will set you back £100 alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 12, 2008 Author Share Posted May 12, 2008 It really depends what sort of games you're wanting to play. You're not going to get a lot for £200 if you're needing a monitor too... A decent sized monitor will set you back £100 alone. Just forget the games, they will play on any ancient pc. Don't even need like a proper graphics card, just those graphics you get with any standard computer. My friend is offering about £150 for his 2 year old dell. 2.6GHz P4 HT 1gb ram 80gb hard drive Just the tower. Don't know if that's worth it or not, not sure If I should get better specs. Might just save up with my bro for the rest of the year to get a better one. Unless my friend's one is any good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Are you prepared to build? If so: AMD Sempron Dual 2100 Processor Asus M2A-VM Motherboard 1GB MicronMajor DDR2 PC-6400 RAM Seagate 80GB Hard Drive LG DVD Drive Asus TM-250 Case (inc 300W power supply) Total: £161.99 Then you just need to find a monitor. Based on that i would say no to that deal from your mate, his spec isn't as good as the above and the parts are 2nd hand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 12, 2008 Author Share Posted May 12, 2008 I do not know how to build a computer. Neither does my Dad. I might just leave it a while and save. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoogleViper Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 I do not know how to build a computer. Neither does my Dad. I might just leave it a while and save. I would save. For £200 you don't get much, but for £300+ you can get something for your money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 Might get this. The seller will sell this and 15" TFT for £155 delivered. The Memory I could ugrade easy. Just don't know how to upgrade the processor, I suppose you couldn't put much in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoogleViper Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Might get this. The seller will sell this and 15" TFT for £155 delivered. You can get bigger new for less than that. My 19" LG cost me £120. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 You can get bigger new for less than that. My 19" LG cost me £120. The computer and the monitor. The monitor is LG too. P4 2.8GHz 1GB RAM - Will upgrade to like 4GB perhaps 80GB Hard Drive A GeForce card. DVDRW Vista Premium Good Software This and Monitor and Keyboard and stuff for £155. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoogleViper Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 The computer and the monitor. The monitor is LG too. Oh I thought you meant for the monitor alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 The computer and the monitor. The monitor is LG too. P4 2.8GHz 1GB RAM - Will upgrade to like 4GB perhaps 80GB Hard Drive A GeForce card. DVDRW Vista Premium Good Software This and Monitor and Keyboard and stuff for £155. What you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 The computer and the monitor. The monitor is LG too. P4 2.8GHz 1GB RAM - Will upgrade to like 4GB perhaps 80GB Hard Drive A GeForce card. DVDRW Vista Premium Good Software This and Monitor and Keyboard and stuff for £155. What you think? CPU - not bad at all. Do you reasonably well. RAM - Just get another gig, 4GB is complete over kill. HDD - 80GB HDD is small, but will do for standard desktopy things. Graphics card - "GeForce" which series? Which type? Good software - i lol'D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 Good enough software for me. By the way it's on Vista Premium. The Graphics card is only simple. It's a very entry level 64mb thing as far as I can tell, unless he upgraded it. Unless it's been upgraded it's a Quadro FX 500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Quadro FX 500 is a GeForce FX 5200... so that wouldn't be good Its just, Vista Premium has Aero, which might not run on an entry level card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ws360/en/ug/info.htm#1118040 Would I be able to upgrade my card for Aero? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Well... you have an old style graphics card port. An AGP. But it doesn't mention anything about the graphics card, so i assume thats whatever the customer wants/whatever Dell sticks in. Unless theres a VGA output on the motherboard, then you have no chance in hell :p. Anything above a Radeon 9600 series or a GeForce 6400 series will run Aero usually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 Looked on Nvidia website and there's a couple of nice cards which will take that slot. Don't know about ATI though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I wouldn't buy that one, you want to bag yourself something that you can upgrade cheaply. A computer with DDR memory and an AGP graphics card is gonna cost you considerably more than one with DDR2 memory and a PCIe graphics card! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCK Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 You really wouldn't need extra RAM if you're going to use it as an internet PC. Vista should be kind of heavy for it though. Especially with a graphics card that won't run Aero (it won't), you might as well just run Windows XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 Found I better system I'm gonna try go after. P4 3.0 HT DDR2 Memory PCIe x16 40GB Hard Drive (Seriously, no problem for me, I use like nothing!) Windows XP Pro 17" HP Monitor (Worth £215 new on amazon.) And it's a Small Form PC. Pretty sure I want this one. 240W Power Supply, which I heard ain't too good for graphics cards. This lot is on ebay £135 w/ delivery starting price. Going to try get my Dad to brain wash him into a Buy It Now. But well I don't think I'd need upgraded graphics unless I mysteriously decided I like pc gaming loads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoogleViper Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Are you buying the PC with the view to upgrade in the future or to just get a new PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 Are you buying the PC with the view to upgrade in the future or to just get a new PC? Not really I don't need to upgrade much, maybe memory if I feel that I need it. If I could, I'd upgrade to dual core but I'm pretty sure I can't do that. If I did want to upgrade, what sort of stuff would I be able to do? Turns out the memory is actually only DDR. I have found some ones with DDR2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted May 15, 2008 Author Share Posted May 15, 2008 This morning I have bought a Dell Optiplex GX620 Small Form. This comes with: 275W PSU P4 HT 3.0 1GB DDR2 80GB SATAII HDD Some random graphics (not bothered since this is XP.) XP Pro Intel 945G Chipset £125 Delivered Looking at an Iiyama 19" TFT with speakers. Also need a cheap but good keyboard, mouse and USB Wireless adapter (54mbps will do.) Any ideas for these will be appreciated. I have worked out that this is compatible with Pentium D Processors, which I probably will get one of. As long as I get the Pentium D 930 or below my PSU should be more than adequate, a assume that the fan for the D 930 will not be too big. Also it has 4 DDR2 slots with up to 4GB memory. I'll upgrade this with spare money I have. I don't think I'll get a GPU because really I don't do gaming, if I get into it one day I might just get a custom gaming pc off of ebay. Basically this thing will serve me a long time if I managed to upgrade the CPU and Memory. Will hopefully be quite nippy too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 This morning I have bought a Dell Optiplex GX620 Small Form. This comes with: 275W PSU P4 HT 3.0 1GB DDR2 80GB SATAII HDD Some random graphics (not bothered since this is XP.) XP Pro Intel 945G Chipset £125 Delivered Looking at an Iiyama 19" TFT with speakers. Also need a cheap but good keyboard, mouse and USB Wireless adapter (54mbps will do.) Any ideas for these will be appreciated. I have worked out that this is compatible with Pentium D Processors, which I probably will get one of. As long as I get the Pentium D 930 or below my PSU should be more than adequate, a assume that the fan for the D 930 will not be too big. Also it has 4 DDR2 slots with up to 4GB memory. I'll upgrade this with spare money I have. I don't think I'll get a GPU because really I don't do gaming, if I get into it one day I might just get a custom gaming pc off of ebay. Basically this thing will serve me a long time if I managed to upgrade the CPU and Memory. Will hopefully be quite nippy too. Upgrading the processor is a big job, only do it if you're sure you know what you're doing. A 3GHz P4 should keep you going for a while though if you don't play games. Oh, and XP only supports 3GB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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