Upgrading one PC, building another. With £500. Help!

[ComradeBadger]

Right, heres what I have on my pc:

AMD XP 1800+
256Mb RAM
GeForce 4 MX440
Jetway motherboard
(onboard sound)
17" monitor

now I want to offload nearly all those parts onto my parents new PC, and I'd like to upgrade mine to a 2.0 Ghz CPU, keep the monitor, upgrade the RAM to 512 (1024 in a perfect world) and get a ATI card, and a new motherboard, and still have enough cash to buy a 15" monitor for my rents PC, 256mb RAM, and other important low-range stuff.... can you guys help?

 

[GPRT]

www.komplett.co.uk and www.overclockers.co.uk

:bounce: :cheers:

 

[ComradeBadger]

I've already looked at komplett and overclockers.... ya see I don't know anything about hardware at all... so I don't actually know what I need

 

[dawdler]

You can get an upgrade kit (2800+/NF7-S/512) for £271.12 at komplett... The expensive part comes with the gcard. £218.81 for a 9800 (non pro). £130.60 for a 9600 Pro, which probably will be your bet... You can get cheap monitors down to £100.23 (17 inchers) another 58.82 for an additional 512mb memory. Could probably fit in in below £500 (would have to be a 9600 Pro though) if custom fitting it. I aint got time now, maybe later.

 

[dawdler]

Fiddling together a custom one yields a near identical to that upgrade kit...
A 2600+, NF7-S, 512mb PC3200 (400mhz standard memory, wont actually need that frequency, but it was the same price as the 333mhz memory) and a Sapphire 9600 Pro 128mb.

Total price of £343, gives you lots of room for the rest. If your memory is already 333mhz, you can get another 256 stick instead of a new 512, will save you £30. (note, you might want to spend the extra £2-4 to get two 256 instead and run them in Dual DDR mode)

But this is only from checking one site, Komplett. And if you really want to fiddle and save money, you want to get a 2.4c and a regular 9600 (preferably a 9800, but they are alot more expensive), then buy top quality heatsinks/fans and overclock the crap out of them. Not 100% safe, but can be cheaper

 

[TheRook]

ok i recently found this site... its a damn good site its canadian but they ship internationally... there prices are about 40£ cheaper than UK prices obviously you have to pay shipping but thats not too bad if you take into account all the cash you save!

TheRook
:smoking:
:linkage: http://www.bytewizecomputers.com/ :linkage:

oh word fo advise keep the prices on United States because the exchange rate is usually slightly better than there conversion system...

if you need to find out the cost use this here currency converter

www.xe.com/ucc

TheRook

p.s. you can get a 9800 non pro for 150-160£ which is 50-60£ cheaper than any UK site

bringing it to about the same price as a good 9600pro

 

[GPRT]

I've already looked at komplett and overclockers.... ya see I don't know anything about hardware at all... so I don't actually know what I need

I see, try looking on google for hardware guides, www.tomshardware.com comes to mind, also www.pcguide.com (if you can get through the mindless drivle) and www.pctechguide.com

hope that helps :bounce: :cheers:

 

[ComradeBadger]

Thank you.... the thing is, I don't actually know what a PC should contain ... so this might be quite hard.... I gotta make 2 PCs