New system

[greencreeper]

I've given up trying to understand all the various makes and models and what goes with what I can't even find clear information on the web.

So - £500, what can I get with it? I don't need CD, soundcard or NIC, don't want a motherboard with everything built-in, and after that MSI thread I don't want MSI neither. Oh and I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse. If I could buy a ready-made system to my spec, I would, but I can't.

[edit] I favour AMD over Intel.

[Russ]

From Mike-o-soft in Swansea you'll get an AMD 2400XP with 512 RAM and 80Gb HD, on-board sound and gfx, DVD-ROM, CD-Wr plus 1 year warranty all for £399.

[greencreeper]

I have sound, NIC and CD re-writer in this PC, which I intend moving to any new system. I dunno - part of me likes the idea of building my own system, but everything usually goes wrong for me and with all the problem threads I've read it's off-putting I'm a FPS man, not that I have much time for pleasurable things these days.

[edit] Green reps available

[bopdude]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

I have sound, NIC and CD re-writer in this PC, which I intend moving to any new system. I dunno - part of me likes the idea of building my own system, but everything usually goes wrong for me and with all the problem threads I've read it's off-putting I'm a FPS man, not that I have much time for pleasurable things these days.

[edit] Green reps available

Get yourself down to your local comp fair, talk to a couple of stalls ( usually go for the ones with shops as well ) tell them what you want ( bare-bones ) and ask for a price, then play them against each other untill you get what you want at a price you want to pay, have only ever had one thing faulty from a fair and that was repalcedfor me, same day as well ( ram )

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

I've given up trying to understand all the various makes and models and what goes with what I can't even find clear information on the web.

So - £500, what can I get with it?

It gets you the system in my sig.

[Halcyon]

What you want is a barebones machine then.
Check the big stores online and they offer some.
You get motherboard and ram and processor and a case most of the time.
Then you just transfer your own stuff.

Originally Posted by Richard M

It gets you the system in my sig.

I think he should go for your system, extremely fast, stylish, stable etc. Excellent for his "Half-Life" gaming thats for sure

[Richard M]

Indeed, plus I need to sell it to pay my rent.

[ntl customer]

Whatever you do, avoid the major high street stores such as PC World, The Computer World etc.

[Steve H]

Seconded on Rich's system.... seems like a perfect solution for both parties

[Gareth]

I'd recommend Richard M's offer too, cause if it doesn't work you know where to go to break his legs

Alternatively, you could check here if Richard's is already sold.

[greencreeper]

Richard's system is indeed nice but it's in Cardiff and I'm in Leeds, plus it'll take me a couple of months (maybe less) to reach the £500, by which time Richard will be homeless

I like the idea of a motherboard kit - less likely to bugger it up and I've some guarantee it'll work. I think I can manage with cases and PSUs, hard disks are confusing, and graphics cards are a mystery.

[TheBlueRaja]

Howzabout -

# 113046 - Q-Tec Midi tower ATX 6024MD, Black Pro Line, w/350W AMD/P4

# 123709 - Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz Boxed PC800 Socket PGA478, 1MB cache,
Prescott

# 123081 - Abit IS7-E2 Mainboard for S478/800mhz

# 113518 - TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 512MB CL2.5 Memory

# 121189 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB IDE ATA/100 8MB cache 7200RPM

# 120304 - PowerColor Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB DDR AGP, ATI 9800PRO, DVI-I, TV-Out, Retail

# 300723 - NEC DVD recorder ND-2510A IDE White Bulk,DVD+R/+RW/DVD-R/-RW (Dual layer)

All for 502 quid from www.komplett.co.uk

Here...

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=301152&cks=PRL

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by theblueraja

Howzabout -
<snip>
All for 502 quid from www.komplett.co.uk

Here...

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=301152&cks=PRL

That's more like it

[greencreeper]

What do you think to the packages here: http://www.cclcomputers.biz/acatalog...figurator.html

The motherboard is made by this lot: http://www.soltek.de/ Click on "Products" then "Mainboard" then look for the model number. It's a lovely shade of purple