Build on a budget!

Redriddick

Hi Guys,

A friend of mine has asked me to build her a pc.I said fine but then came the budget €450.I will need everything except for the case as i have one im going to use.The pc will be mostly for her kids nothing too fancy,must have internet (doh) have dvd burner,graphics enough to play a farm simulator her son has and have windows 7.I need psu,motherboard,processor,ram,hard drive,dvd drive and oem of windows 7.
Any ideas prefer amd but will go intel
Thanks,
Redriddick

Solitaire

Due to the insane component prices you're not going to do it for €450 inc. kitchen sink nowadays

Best compromise is to hope there's a decent Compaq or Acer lurking in Currys (for some reason PC World are much pricier! ) for €400-450 inc monitor, but no hope of decent graphics (at one point you could get a post-refresh Acer slimline with AMD X3-425, 3GB DDR3, 9300GS and 19" monitor for €449) so I hope that farm simulator is a browser game or something!

Lu Tze

Is the farm simulator this one

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/10851816/Farming-Simulator-2009/Product.html

Must say i have always been curious as to what it would be like

If only they had classic tractor unlocks as you progress!

Solitaire

:P

Anyway for the OPs sake I hope not as I doubt it would run at all well on integrated graphics

Best bet may be to haunt Adverts and hope to see a last-gen gaming build going cheap!

Redriddick

Thats the simulator alright.Dont know much about it sorry!What sort of budget would it take maybe i can twist her arm!!

cherryghost

here you go OP, about 500 euro



If you wanna shave off a few more euro you could:

- Replace that tri core processor with an X2, you'd shave off 20 euro max on that.
- Get a cheaper brand power supply for about 10 euro less
- Get 2GB of RAM instead of 4GB. Wouldn't recommend it on Windows 7 though, it's slows. That would be another 47 euro off

Solitaire

Broken post is broken

cherryghost

omg boards.ie removed my attachment I'll post it back up when im back at home

Solitaire

Yeah, I went rooting around your post looking for some broken BBCode and found that no matter what I couldn't get the attachment to... well, attach :o

cherryghost

it's there now me thinks

it's not hold on

cherryghost

FINALLY! So yeah, Komplett is still a mess, so maybe you could find similar items elsewhere if you cannot wait a while until Komplett sort themselves out

Jonny7

www.dell.ie ... seriously

cherryghost

Jonny7 wrote: »

www.dell.ie ... seriously

For what? 429 euro for a pc with a crappy integrated 4200 in it, or 500 euro for a Core 2 Duo machine? He already has a case. He may as well use it and make a quality build with a good PSU and such

Jonny7

Meh you're right, those PC's on dell are pretty terrible, the outlet is empty.

To think that nearly 2 years ago I got a refurb Quad, 4 gig ram, 9600GT and 1 tb hdd PC with windows for sub 300 euros.

Redriddick

Cherryghost,

Thanks a million for the specs.I have to agree with ya with regards building your own pc.I have built a htpc for my home cinema and have to say that it is excellent.When i first got my own pc it cost me €1400 when i bought it all i can say is never again.would always build my own now.I may not be up to selecting all the components but thats no problem thanks to you guys here!

CodeMonkey

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/189241

AMD Athlon II X4 620
4GB RAM
1TB HDD
ATI Radeon 5750
No Operating System

For £399.97

cherryghost

CodeMonkey wrote: »

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/189241

AMD Athlon II X4 620
4GB RAM
1TB HDD
ATI Radeon 5750
No Operating System

For £399.97

470 euro without an operating system. Gotta add another 100 onto that :rolleyes:

EDIT: Just saw Komplett have the Athlon II x4 620 for an extra 26 euro

CodeMonkey

cherryghost wrote: »

470 euro without an operating system. Gotta add another 100 onto that :rolleyes:

EDIT: Just saw Komplett have the Athlon II x4 620 for an extra 26 euro

Even with the same cpu, that system has a slightly better graphics card and bigger hd and it's fully assembled. The system you speced out is going to be ~525.

Building is not always the only option for a half decent machine for a small budget. If I am sorting out a machine for someone else that's the route I'll go down.

Redriddick

What about this guys?
Sapphire RADEON HD 5670 - Graphics adapter -
Radeon HD 5670 - PCI Express 2.0 x16 - 512 MB €76.68 €86.00 SKU 15579137 / Manufacturer P/N: 11168-01-20R
Availability: 8 units on stock Processor - 1 x AMD Athlon II X3 435 / 2.9 GHz -
Socket AM3 - L2 1.5 MB ( 3 x 512 KB ) - Box €72.00 €72.00 SKU 20000973 / Manufacturer P/N: ADX435WFGIBOX
Availability: 2 units on stock CoolerMaster eXtreme Power Plus RS-500-PCAP-A3 -
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Availability: 9 units on stock Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 - Motherboard - ATX - AMD
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Availability: 20 units on stock
Total (shipping costs included) €419.75

cherryghost

nice. you could chop off up to 20 euro on that PSU and go for a Corsair 400 though Your PC wont even touch that. It's a very power friendly build

Redriddick

cherryghost wrote: »

nice. you could chop off up to 20 euro on that PSU and go for a Corsair 400 though Your PC wont even touch that. It's a very power friendly build

Yeh i wanted the corsair but alas not in stock and would prefer to get all of one supplier.I have one in my htpc and it is ace.This build wont be used for much gaming more of a general use pc!!