Building a GeForce 880 card, 2GB of RAM, and a 3GHz dual-core CPU with windows vista for less than £450
PC Case
Cooler Master RC-330 V2
Price £25.79
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Power Supply
500W FSP Blue Storm II
Price £58.62
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L
Price £46.93
Processor
Intel Pentium Dual-Core, E2180, Socket 775, Allendale Core, 2×2.0 GHz, 1MB Cache, Retail
Price £43.35
Scan.co.uk
Memory
2GB(2×1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2
DDR2 PC2-6400
Price £34.08
Cooling Bit
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Price £15.26
Graphics Card
256MB XFX GeForce 8800GT
Price £117.36
Hard Drive
160GB Hitachi 7K160
Price £31.36
Scan.co.uk
DVD Writer
Optiarc
Windows Vista Home Premium
Price £59.68
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You forgot to buy Vista.
How could I forget the wonderful windows vista?
The 500w PSU is a little overkill for the components but of course would not hurt it
You could most likely know a fair bit more off the price or beef it up more.
What he should look into it Overclocking that E2140 for even more performance!
I currently run one in my Media PC at 2.6ghz which runs 24/7.
In fact my MediaPC is a very similar spec and cost under £260
I’m not sure what the exchange rate for £ to $ but that looks like a decent budget rig for that price range.
Personally I’d stay away from Vista though, and go with something more stable and less taxing on your system like XP or Server 2003.
I agree with using XP or server instead of Vista.
Vista uses around 1gig of ram just to sit idle.
I know Vista does have other advantages but I don’t think it’s worth it yet, maybe if they release another service pack that might do the trick.