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The UK's Cheapest PC Base Unit

Hi,

I am trying to find the cheapest PC base unit in the UK. It must be brand new with a 12 month warranty minimum and include Case, Motherboard, Optical Drive, Hard Drive, Memory, CPU and include VAT and be available to the general public.

The cheapest I have found is at EPCBuyer and is £155.08 inc VAT and you get 5% at Quidco. Specifications below:

# AMD Sempron 2500+ 64-Bit CPU
# 256MB 400MHz DDR Branded Memory
# 52x Speed CD-Rom
# 40GB 7200rpm Fast Hard Drive
# 300w Midi Tower Case
# 1.44MB Panasonic Floppy
# Keyboard, Scroll Mouse and 200w Speakers
# Integrated S3 Graphics UniChrome 2D/3D Graphics with motion compensation assign upto 64MB
# 5.1 Sound On-Board
# On-Board 10/100 Lan Controller
# VIA® K8M800 chipset
# 1x Serial port (COM 1), 1x Parallel port
# 4 USB ports
# 1x Audio/Game port
# Three 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots
# 1x AGP 4x/8x Slot
# Supports a maximum memory size of 2GB
# 3 Year Warranty

http://www.epcbuyer.com/products.asp?recid=1315

If anyone can find any cheaper, I'd love to know!

Comments

  • Poppycat
    Poppycat Posts: 19,899 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Thats cheap but specs is pretty naff tbh even for a cheap PC I rather pay a bit more for a barebones system
  • pjala
    pjala Posts: 420 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    You have to be really careful with the motherboards in a cheap computer system. It is best to get a good make, as you don't want to be sending it back and forth, if the motherboard connectors or components are not good enough.
    So the spec needs a brand name and model number for the motherboard as well
  • I'd say it's fairly pointless not having a CD rewriter as that should add very little cost.
  • DM2007
    DM2007 Posts: 104 Forumite
    cant find any cheaper - sorry.
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