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Right i'm in the process of having a new pc built.

What sort of price do you think the following will cost

New motherboard
Dual core (or possibly quad core) processor
4 gb RAM
200 - 300 gb Hard drive
A decent sound and graphics card

My mum is enquiring at Brookes and it's looking like £200-£250.

Is that a good price?

Basically having a whole new pc built.

If you purchase the parts seperately and use dual core AMD
if this does not include an operating system then for the spec you suggest I would say that £150-170 is near the mark but all depends on how good a sound card and graphics card you have as the price varies from £2.50 for a cheap sound up to hundreds of pounds and from £25 for a cheap graphics up to ..well the skys the limit.

For a basic system without XP and a small hard drive like you want I usually charge around £180 including building it but without XP or Vista...with XP or Vista you can add about £40 to that.

£40 for genuine XP? Can you sell them on the sly like that, minus new pc please? :D

My old man's having some shitty problems with his and i have a good mind just to stick a genuine OS on his PC for the first time.

I think they remove the listings now Barry but there used to be chaps selling genuine license keys and/or the full disc for that sort of price on the old ebay.

Worth a skeet...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GENUINE-WINDOWS-XP-PRO-COA-LICENCE_W0QQitemZ180208207756QQihZ008QQcategoryZ41888QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

You may end up with some branding like Dell but it's all the same at the end of the day.

I bought my all-in-one Windows disk off eBay a few years ago. £15, i think, the auction got shutdown, which was predictable, but i got every version of windows ever, along with all MSN, Media Players and DX. He also threw in Office 2000 Pro.

That was a proper bargain, as it can build isos for me as well.

I also got a few grand of music software once as well. eBay is ace for that, and Dazza, i may just have to take a gander if my old man kicks up a stink again tonight. Thanks.

This includes building and Vista.

An OEM copy of windows xp cost me £50 from dabs.

Ralphy, the first thing I would do is ditch 2gb of memory, you don't need 4gb.

Personally I think the AMD dual core chips are poor value for money compared to Intel. A quad core processor is going to cost you around a tonne and fifty and probably not in your budget or needs.

What will you use it for?

Ok first off, all these parts will be bought at wholesale price so cheaper than normal  :wink:

As for quad core, I figured it's the top processor currently so I may as well future proof myself for a few years?

My PC will be used for gaming, surfing the net and music.

You want to spend more money on the graphics Ralphy, if that's what you're going to use more.

Get an 8800GT graphics card if you're into gaming. The true directx10 games will be out this year, although I think that's all over-hyped bollocks. But this card will let you have some good resolutions (better than a console) at high settings.

Memory is cheap as fuck anyway, so you'd only save a bit by dropping to 2ghz, especially if wholesale so I guess there is no harm in that. Would be better off getting faster memory though than more of a lower speed imo.

You going to be running vista 64bit then?

I assume so yes?

I honestly don't know much about pc's Si.

Is this the newest version of Vista?

It's the 64bit version. The 32bit version can only address 3gb of memory, so buying 4gb is a waste of money.

Magazine I bought yesterday built a decent gaming machine for £300

The hardware support department at Oxford Brookes is building it for me so I assume it will be 64bit Vista.

which mag?

CustomPC

Actually it was PCFormat

Maybe if you didn't spend all your money on magazines you could buy me more pints.

I don't think £9.50 would buy a lot of pints.

You're getting a bit desparate Benjamin. Have you signed on yet?

£9.50 for a magazine?!

For 2 magazines I think.

Signing on requires me finding lot's of old payslips and stuff.

It's a bit of a nightmare as I spent a fair bit of the last year being paid cash in hand.

I think it might be easier just to get a job. What's the fucking point of job seekers if it's easier to get a job. Cunts.

2 magazines and one in the chamber

I think that is the point you workshy layabout

Plenty of postal jobs going Ben  :D

someone lend me £600

What for?

a new PC, mine's dead. i can't play anything on this laptop :(

Thats the main reason i'm changing. FM 2008 won't play properly on this.

Ask Bennett nicely.

I'm fairly sure that i'm going to win the EuroMillions tonight...

If i do, i shall give you £800 James.

ace.

ta!

BUMP


I finally have my new PC  :D

Quad core (2 dual core processors)
2 gig RAM
500 gig Hard Drive

ASUS P5GC-VM Motherboard
Geeforve 7300 GS Graphics card

£250

That's fucking ace for £250 Ralph :thumbs:

Not really a massive saving, but at least someone built it for you etc. Obviously a case and psu and DVD drive to factor in also. Probably saved yourself £50 :)

Processor £130
Mobo £45
Graphics £20
RAM £25
HD £50

Total £270

That includes case, psu and a Samsung DVD drive as well sorry.