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 Challenge: Build a PC for £150
Paul (MVP)
post Sep 22 2008, 11:07
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An interesting challenge perhaps for an article i'm working on for another site!

What's the best PC you can build for £150 INCLUDING VAT, INCLUDING delivery?

Conditions:

- Must include all the important stuff, CPU, RAM, HDD, Graphics, Sound etc. PLUS a DVD drive
- All items must be from one online store

So far i've come up with the below... which is the Atom integrated Mobo (64 bit version), 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Samsung DVD-RW, black case... all from eBuyer coming in @ £146.36.

Can you do better?

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Paul (MVP)
post Sep 22 2008, 11:17
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Interestingly the Atom mobo could be swapped for a "Intel Celeron Dual Core E1200 Socket 775" and a "NVIDIA GeForce 7050 / nForce 610i" equipped mobo without busting the budget... a better option?

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Paul (MVP)
post Sep 22 2008, 11:18
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One of the attributes of the Atom that does appeal however is it's OSX friendliness wink.gif

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post Sep 22 2008, 11:49
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That's a very good price. Good find.

Building one for yourself or for a friend/family?


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post Sep 22 2008, 11:53
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Just curious, and interested to see just how cheap PC building has got!

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post Sep 22 2008, 12:27
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How about the same as (from Ebuyer) above but with:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4450e 2.3GHz Socket AM2 Retail Boxed Processor
Kingston 2gb Kit (2x1gb) Ddr2 800mhz/pc2-6400 Hyperx Memory Non-ecc Cl4
Foxconn A6VMX AMD 690V Socket AM2 onboard VGA 6 channel audio mATX Motherboard... for £154inc vat

Or AMD Sempron LE-1200 Socket AM2 2.1GHz Retail Boxed Processor for £135...


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Paul (MVP)
post Sep 22 2008, 12:30
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Sempron > Dual Core Celeron or not?

The X2 option is over budget, you could of course lose a GB of RAM or halve the size of the hard drive... Interesting...

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post Sep 22 2008, 12:56
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Ebuyer has always been on of the cheapest places at least in the UK.
I presume this is for the base unit only and does not include an OS?


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post Sep 22 2008, 13:00
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Yeah, correct...

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post Sep 22 2008, 16:39
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