£500 inc VAT

[easy]

Hi

1st post, and believe me, it wont be my last!

My pikey old machine is going outa the window. I am looking at buying one of Aria's off the shelf machines.

I like a bit of gaming, and thats about it really. I do a bit of paintshop work, some website construction and the usual word and excel stuff.

I need a lot of storage, kids films are all stored on it, and the list is growing.

Theres a great choice of machines, but im confused. Im no expert.

I will keep my exist TFT, keyboard and mouse, so its just the main box itself.

Can anyone give me pointer?

Anyone else bought one?

Or should I build me own from scratch? ( i would struggle specing all the parts knowing they were all compatable)

help!

Please.

THX Easy

[alexnifty]

Borrowing from this thread:

http://www.aria.co.uk/forums/posting.php?mode=quote&p=27239


Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/CPUs+%2F+Processors/Intel/Core+2+Duo/Intel+Core+2+Duo+E6550+2.33GHz+%28775%29+?productI d=27971) £104

ASUS P5K Intel iP35 Socket 775 (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Motherboards/Socket+775+%28Intel%29/ASUS+P5K+Intel+iP35+Socket+775+Motherboard+?produc tId=27298) £74

1GB Patriot PC2 6400 Extreme Performance (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/DDR2/DDR2+800+%28PC6400%29/Patriot+1GB+PC2-6400+Extreme+Performance+?productId=26990) £27

500GB Samsung Spinpoint SATA2 16MB (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/Serial+ATA/500GB+Samsung+Spinpoint+SATA2+16MB+?productId=2516 2) £63

OCZ 600W StealthXStream PSU (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Power+Supplies/500w+%2B/OCZ+600W+StealthXStream+PSU+?productId=26933) £53

EVGA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB PCI-E (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/PCI-E/nVIDIA+GeForce+8+Series/EVGA+GeForce+8600GTS+256MB+PCI-E+?productId=26827) £126

Comes in at £447 leaving £53 for a case, and theres a lot of nice ones for under £50, like this Gigabyte Triton Black (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Cases/MIDI+Tower/Gigabyte+Triton+Black?productId=24863) for £47

Not as powerful as the system mentioned in the above thread, but some things had to be sacrificed to get it under £500. Of course if you are willing to spend £550 then you could get that system with the case I mentioned. Or even cannabalise the old case?

EDIT: just noticed neither system has a DVD drive :roll: !NEC AD-7170A-0B 18x DVDRW DL Black (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/CD%2FDVD+Drives/DVD-R%2FRW+Writer/NEC+AD-7170A-0B+18x+DVDRW+DL+Black?productId=24528) is £18 extra or cannabalise your old system.

[bouncyb]

you beat me too it,lol

[alexnifty]

[quote:d35509db47=\"bouncyb\"]you beat me too it,lol[/quote:d35509db47]

You could always suggest pre-built system for his budget, I frankly couldn't be bothered :lol: