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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?

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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.

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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.

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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...

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I do not know how to build a computer. Neither does my Dad.

 

I might just leave it a while and save.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The computer and the monitor. The monitor is LG too.

 

Oh I thought you meant for the monitor alone.

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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?

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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 :)

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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.

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Quadro FX 500 is a GeForce FX 5200... so that wouldn't be good :D

 

Its just, Vista Premium has Aero, which might not run on an entry level card.

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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.

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Looked on Nvidia website and there's a couple of nice cards which will take that slot.

 

Don't know about ATI though.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Are you buying the PC with the view to upgrade in the future or to just get a new PC?

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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.

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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.

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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 :)

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