Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 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? ;) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 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? P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 One of the attributes of the Atom that does appeal however is it's OSX friendliness ;) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsutton Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 That's a very good price. Good find. Building one for yourself or for a friend/family? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Just curious, and interested to see just how cheap PC building has got! P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sagr Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 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... P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awarner (MVP) Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Yeah, correct... P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Here's my entry! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Nice one ... does that case come with a psu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Oh yes, 400W PSU and the Mobo has on-board VGA too. I wonder how low this DIY PC thing can go?? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 It works out even cheaper with a dual core Athlon X2! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Impressive, where's that from? P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 That's all from CCL I'm sure someone will find an even lower bottom end of the market! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 See my idea was to build the most energy efficient PC possible. Saving money etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jimbouk Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 I win... I bought an HP ProLiant ML110 G5 - Micro tower - 1-way - 1 x Dual-Core Xeon 3065 / 2.33 GHz - RAM 1 GB - HDD 1 x 250 GB - DVD±RW (+R double layer) - Gigabit Ethernet - for £94 four weeks ago from Insight. Amazingly they sold out the 250 they had in stock at that price in 24hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 In which case, you lose ;) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jimbouk Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Woah... OK only1gb of ram, but I could get another one for £25 - so a xeon processor, 2gb ram, 250gb hard drive, sata/sas etc... £120 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Yeah, but you lose because it's sold out! ;) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jimbouk Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 No... you lot lose! Its sat at home running sbs 2003 and hosting all my media and my email... pushing it out to my diamond etc, and I have thus cancelled my 4smartphone account. That £85 saving per year combined with Pipex halfing my monthly bill and throwing in a fixed IP address - saving me £10 per month, means that the £200 or so total outlay is paid for in one year. I just need to find the best cheap server AV offering... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 ;) :wacko: P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sxywill2005 Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 I found two systems at Aria if that counts ;) : http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+...productId=31975 http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+...productId=32113 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sxywill2005 Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 (edited) Ah build your own system... Well I have an option. It costs £148 inc VAT, but there is a £10 delivery charge <_< Bringing it to £158. Specs are better on mine. ATI integrated tend to perform better than nVidia and Intel. What is bringing my cost up is the super sexy Asus case which doesn't include a power supply. I have room to have a cheap looking case with power supply for less than £20 which would mean that including delivery, I could have something which comes to £148. For an extra £3 you can have a 250GB HDD too :wacko: http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+...productId=30165 Aria also do a cheap Pinnacle PCI-E dual hybrid TV tuner card too for less than £18: http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+...productId=28679 Then you have a Media Centre on your hands ;) Edited September 25, 2008 by sxywill2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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