build me a PC of £500

**bids** · 26-07-06

i was wondering if someone could help, buy telling me what i exactly need to build a pc, to max out the £500 to get the maximum from what i can spend thank you.

**mac124** · 26-07-06

What do you intend using it for?? Gaming? Multimedia? Office work? Video editing type stuff?

Need a bit of background as to what you intend doing with it, i could spec you something with a £200 graphics card in and then find out you don't play many games on it and the money would have been better spent on more storage etc etc.

**Barley** · 26-07-06

Yep, we need to know what you want to do with the system, and whether or not you have any parts already? Do you have a keyboard, mouse, monitor? If so you can use them and add more money to important components.

**bids** · 26-07-06

thanx for your reply, well if this helps i would like the pc to run for a couple of years with out changing much of it, thanx again for your help.

**Gregoroth** · 26-07-06

Presuming you've got keyboard, mouse, speakers etc. and play some games:

Athlon X2 4200 Socket 939 (£146)
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 Socket 939 (£39)
Corsair Value Select 512MB PC3200 VS512MB400 x2 (£62)
160GB Seagate Barracuda 9 SATA-2 (£49)
Enermax Liberty 500W Modular PSU (£69)

Approx. £372 Total inc shipping.

Sapphire X1800GTO 256MB PCI-E £132 Total inc shipping (Aria don't stock these cards)

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£504 TOTAL - close enough :wink:

*The motherboard will allow you to use an AGP graphics card if you currently have one. Otherwise, you can choose another motherboard with a few more PCI-E slots.

If you need a case, you could get a slightly cheaper PSU (Antec, Enermax recommended) and a smaller size HDD.

**bids** · 26-07-06

erm well i need everything so from scratch if go over by £50 it doesn’t matter, thanks for you help ppl, much appreciated

**Barley** · 26-07-06

Well that makes a huge difference because you need a monitor and case. Including them, I doubt you'll have a PC that can play any new games, unless you source some parts from eBay on the cheap.

**mac124** · 26-07-06

This includes everything you will probably need to do a bit of upgrading in a few months to a year depending on what you do, ie the gfx isn't great so if you find that game you really want to play is stuggling then graphics card / memory might need upgrading that type of thing also the monitor isn't massive but it should suffice again you could get a bigger one when / if needed when funds allow. Also i have added a different one to the one supplied in the 4 in 1 pack as i wouldn't trust a bundled psu as far as i coul throw it these days but it's upto you, you could go with the bundled one and spend the extra ££ elsewhwere upgrading something.

**Gregoroth** · 26-07-06

Alien Custom Case Silver (Zorro Design) (£27)
Keyboard, Mse & Sp'ks (Black/Silv) (£7) Would be sufficient to get you started

£538

If you don't have a monitor, then the cheapest option would be one of the Dell 17\" CRT's. That would probably knock up your shipping a bit too. You could always downgrade your cpu to an Athlon X2 3800 which would save you roughly £30/get you a CRT monitor. The X2 3800 is still a fantastic processor!

If you don't like the speakers, then just get keyboard, mouse and a nicer speaker set seperately. The keyboard and mouse are cheap. The speakers depend on quality. Anyway, that's a rough guide. Tell us what you think.

ADD: Sorry I forgot about your DVD-RW.

NEC ND-4571 LabelFlash (£25)

Looks like you may want to just get 512MB RAM. Things like RAM can be added to at a later date anyway. Approx. £508?

**bids** · 26-07-06

how much would i need to spend for a pc that would last me a long time without breaking the bank?????

**Gregoroth** · 26-07-06

I'd say £550-£600, depends what you class breaking the bank as.

**Gregoroth** · 26-07-06

This looks good to me:

Athlon X2 3800 (£117)
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 (£39)
Seagate 80GB SATA2 8MB Cache HDD (£35)
Silver Floppy Drive (£5)
Corsair Value Select 512MB VS512MB400 (£31)
NEC ND-4571 DVD-RW LabelFlash (£25)
Any quality 450W+ PSU (Antec, Enermax etc) (£50-£70)
Alien Custom Case Silver (Zorro Design) (£27) (Also possible to source a Jeantech G-Max Case from ebay at under £20)
Dell 17\" CRT Black monitor (£50?)
Sapphire X1800GTO 256MB PCI-E (£125) (Can find elsewhere)
Windows XP Home OEM (£56)
Keyboard, mouse, speakers - you decide.

That should be everything.

£590 max total exc. shipping. (exc. mouse, keyboards, speakers)

Hope that helps.

**Belso** · 27-07-06

A very stable build. Comes with a 17ich TFT monitor, Dual Core processor, 1GB of Memory, Windows XP, high quality power supply, and even a pci-e graphics card.

For around £550 delivered 8)

With an extra £50 upgrade to either 2GB if you do alot of muilittasking and not alot of gaming. If you like gaming then upgrade the graphics card.

**Firerat** · 27-07-06

[quote:8ca4574a64=\"mac124\"]

This includes everything you will probably need to do a bit of upgrading in a few months to a year depending on what you do, ie the gfx isn't great so if you find that game you really want to play is stuggling then graphics card / memory might need upgrading that type of thing also the monitor isn't massive but it should suffice again you could get a bigger one when / if needed when funds allow. Also i have added a different one to the one supplied in the 4 in 1 pack as i wouldn't trust a bundled psu as far as i coul throw it these days but it's upto you, you could go with the bundled one and spend the extra ££ elsewhwere upgrading something.[/quote:8ca4574a64]

you missed the HS/Fan for the OEM CPU

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductsList.a...SubCat=FAN-939

**Firerat** · 27-07-06

Just had a thought,

Can you install XP SP2 on a SATA drive without a floppy drive these days?

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