Mr Motivator Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 I did try before but got nowhere, so.. What I need is a fairly decent computer for college work and personal use. I have a monitor, a keyboard, speakers and a mouse so all I need is the big bit (no computer terminoligy inside my head what so ever). I would be sooo greatful if you could help me by telling me exactly what I need. I'm going to be buying everything from ebuyer.co.uk and it needs to be as cheap yet powerfull as possible. I'm going to be running all the standard microsoft office programs, and programs such as autocad06, solidworks, psp8, premier, msn, mozilla. Thats about everything I will ever use on it. So I need a list of everything from the case to power buttons etc, I have no idea!! Oh yeah, once its all put together I just turn it on and put in an XP disk? Oh, and how much is windows xp to by new? Samm, so greatfull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Harrison Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 If you really have no idea, why not just buy a ready made computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted October 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 (edited) Cost, and I already have half of it. Edit: just saw your signature, I have a black 5bolt middleburn spider sat here doing nothing, PM if you want it. Edited October 4, 2005 by Sam@SouthTrials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted October 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 If I did get a full build.. Whats this like? Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koxx_TryAll Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 I did try before but got nowhere, so.. What I need is a fairly decent computer for college work and personal use. I have a monitor, a keyboard, speakers and a mouse so all I need is the big bit (no computer terminoligy inside my head what so ever). I would be sooo greatful if you could help me by telling me exactly what I need. I'm going to be buying everything from ebuyer.co.uk and it needs to be as cheap yet powerfull as possible. I'm going to be running all the standard microsoft office programs, and programs such as autocad06, solidworks, psp8, premier, msn, mozilla. Thats about everything I will ever use on it. So I need a list of everything from the case to power buttons etc, I have no idea!! Oh yeah, once its all put together I just turn it on and put in an XP disk? Oh, and how much is windows xp to by new? Samm, so greatfull. Well Firstly you will need the bare tower, Some you can buy with a motherboard. Then you will need to buy a motherboard if needs be, Try and get one with the procsser and mbs of ram already with it then it will save time. Next will come the graphics card, You can pick them up really cheap, depending on what you want. Then you dont really need but i would suggest getting a floppy drive, the really cheap. Then a Basic CD or DVD Drive or a Burner if needs be. Now Xp discs you may be able to pick up cheap in some places. But they are quite dear to buy in a lot of shops. Now there is places where you can buy the copies with the cd key. Now if you need a copy then just let me know. I'll only charge £8 Inc The cover and case. Chears. If I did get a full build.. Whats this like? Sam That would be a good pc to buy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 Try aria.co.uk, is alot better than ebuyer and is based in Manchester I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Harrison Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 Yeah I've used Aria, very good they are too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boon racoon Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 www.novatech.com do some pretty cheap motherboard bundles. with ram and processor. onboard sound/graphics/network/usb in most cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted October 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 OK... This computer with this ram.. It has a celeron processor, are they ok? I just remember them being in the old win98s.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 eBuyer sucks balls. Mainly because I can never get on the site to see what people are buying. Oh well. And Celerons are ok but not amazing, they are the budget range of Intel's CPUs. You'd probably be better off going for a cheaper Pentium that is rated slower, but will perform better. Or AMD... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMonkey Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO do not, DO NOT for the love of christ get a celeron. I had one and I could of put a stick in it's place and it would of ran better. Get a pentium or an AMD, but make sure it ain't budget range, just the mid range ones, don't need to be HT or 64. Just not the budget stuff, that task manager overloads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downhill_rob2@hotmail.com Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 i have a little hamster that runs constantly on a wheel that powers my compuer... well, not really, but would work better than me celeron !!! :sleeping: :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Harrison Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 My computer is made of jam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endofreak Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 What about something like THIS? The picture shows an entire package but it's actually just the tower, keyboard and mouse. Seems to have a decent processor and a gig of ram, along with a 200gig hard drive and a DVD writer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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