I need advice about building a cheap pc 4 myself. I looked at the ption in the sticky post but the motherboard mentioned is not available locally to me in London so some other suggestions plz.
I am a student so most cost effective system i.e. cheap yet giving performance. I will be mainly using it to surf, burn & play music, word etc and some games although dont get too much time for them. But i hate systems that are too slow in the routine tasks.
I was thinking bout a
Athlon Xp 2400- 2800
Abit / ASus nvidia chip mobo
512 mb ddr (dont know the company)
120/80 gb 7200 ide hard disk (?Maxtor/Seagate)
Using on board sound
Lite-on 52x cdrw + dvd player drive
1.44 fd
agp card (? not sure what to buy)
56k modem internal
monitor planning to use an old 17" crt, gettin one from a fair for £40-45
I am not averse to using used parts for it if i can find them frm computer fairs or maybe look for deals on ebay. i am not too sure about ebay though.
I am a student so most cost effective system i.e. cheap yet giving performance. I will be mainly using it to surf, burn & play music, word etc and some games although dont get too much time for them. But i hate systems that are too slow in the routine tasks.
I was thinking bout a
Athlon Xp 2400- 2800
Abit / ASus nvidia chip mobo
512 mb ddr (dont know the company)
120/80 gb 7200 ide hard disk (?Maxtor/Seagate)
Using on board sound
Lite-on 52x cdrw + dvd player drive
1.44 fd
agp card (? not sure what to buy)
56k modem internal
monitor planning to use an old 17" crt, gettin one from a fair for £40-45
I am not averse to using used parts for it if i can find them frm computer fairs or maybe look for deals on ebay. i am not too sure about ebay though.