Most Powerfull PC for £200??

saadz2k5

hi alll! i originally wanted a gaming computer but seems like my 200 quid budget is just not gonna cut the mustard

soooo is someone gonna make me a nice list of what i SHOULD buy to build the most powerful pc i can within this shabby budget

no need for anything else but the actual pc tower thingy though, as ive already purchased a lcd tv etc for the screen

one mandatory requirement of mine is TWO dvdrw drives would be cool, but apart from that i dunno what would yallll suggest???

Poppycat

LOL you aint going get much for that, I see you asked this in this thread and got answered

I Want To Build A Cheap Gaming Pc

As said most of your large budget will be taken up on the graphics card of £40+ for even the rubbish card, on top of that ram (1gb min) mobo, cpu, case, psu etc and then dvd (another £20+ for 1 let alone 2)

You could get a cheap barebones system for laying music, surfing, word, and odd game for around that price but you really need more for pc gaming Some of the barebones system could with integrated graphics these pc's really aint much use with games tbh. You can of course on some of them update the graphics with a new card if you strapped for cash.

Try this site for barebones

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/barebones.html

epz_2

why not jump on freecyle and see if you can grab a free old pc, it will likely have dvd burners and you can reuse the case. after that

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INTEL-775-CORE-2-DUO-CPU-MOTHERBOARD-2GB-DDR2_W0QQitemZ260198803905QQihZ016QQcategoryZ131530QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

you really do need a monitor thought, big tvs are fine for watching tv on but little use for real stuff, if all you want is gameing then why not get a console like the 360

Rev

There was a dell offer on HDUK a few days back. Since you're budget is so small why not buy instead of build? It was £185 and you could use the rest to add the extra DVD burner.

Dell Vostro 200 Slim Base unit

Sorry if links aren't allowed, please delete if that's the case.

bookduck

go to someone like novatech.co.uk and buy a memory/cpu/mboard upgrade that fits your case.

Why 2 dvdr drives?

BigBouncyBall

search ebay for systems.

I'd also seriously consider getting an XBox if you just want gaming.

pepsi_max2k

you won't get much more than a 4200+ X2 (dual core amd, same price and slightly faster than an E2160 but overclocks less) with either onboard graphics or a very cheap graphics card for that much, though all depends on what you can reuse from elsewhere and what OS you're using. good enough for playing games released up to a couple years ago, but anything after that is gonna have problems.

edit: if you really wanna go for the best under £200, this is what I just built a few weeks back. it's diy only though (and some stuff is 2nd hand, but it makes little difference most of the time), and if you don't have a spare OS it'll be over the £200 mark. fwiw i can build one of these for anyone who wants it if you're willing to wait a month and collect from the leeds area...

4200+ x2 2.2 GHz processor- £37.99 - ebay
WD2500JS 250 GB hard drive- £24.85 - ebay
GA-MA69G-S3H motherboard (integrated X1250 graphics)- £40.24 - scan.co.uk
Hiper Type-R 480W psu - £20.56 - ebay
2 x 1GB Corsair XMS Ram - £25.83 - scan
S203N DVD-RW (I guess you'll want 2 of these...) - £16.74 (33.48 x 2) - scan
icute white tower case - 19.99 - ebuyer.co.uk
Hiper Case Fan - £3.02 cclonline.com

£169.23 (£185.97 w/ 2x dvdrws)

windows vista educational version - 55.36 - ebuyer.co.uk (though I'd recommend XP, esp. if you have a spare copy/key from an old pc)

£224.49 (£241.33 w 2xdvdrws)

I'm a money saving adict so that's really the best price you're gonna see for something of that spec give or take some ebay luck and a few price drops. you could also get an intel E2160 instead which will OC much better to around 3 GHz speeds but although the processor will be around the same price, a motherboard with comparable graphics will probably cost around £10 to £20 more, and unless you're planning on getting a decent graphics card sometime the extra processor speed probably won't help you much with gaming.

oh and btw, the above board has a HDMI out port which will nicely connect up to your LCD TV if it also has a HDMI port, though you could just as easily use DVI if it was available on the LCD.

Robin_T_Cox

You can buy an eSys AMD 3600 PC Base Unit from Tesco Direct for £189.93 in their sale.

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-6129.aspx

Features:

Box Contents PC Base Unit, Keyboard, Mouse, Relevant Driver CD and Manual & Power cord
Brand eSys
Graphics Integrated on board (Max shared memory 64MB)
Hard Drive Size 80Gb
Keyboard Type Wired
Memory Size 512Mb
Mouse Type Wired
No of USB Ports 6x 2.0 USB
Operating System Linux
Optical Drive Type DVD Rewriter
Processor AMD 3600 Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor
Processor Bus 2000 Mhz
Processor Cache 1Gb
Processor Model Number AMD ADO3600DDBOX
Processor Speed 1.9 Ghz
Software Load Open Office ( Linux )

[Deleted User]

Take a peek at the Dell outlet web-shop.. lots of cheapo Dells there - i got my Dual core athlon last year for 280 quid.. it's fast enough to play quite a few games

flang

http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/HPPC1194
Best your going to get for your money!!!

More about this pc on hotdeals

pepsi_max2k

>> http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/HPPC1194
>> Best your going to get for your money!!!

afaik you need a business account with PC World Business to purchase with them. You can then purchase online or via their stores if there's a PCWB counter there. it's a shame as they have a much larger range of components available than the regular PC World does yet your regular customer can't get hold of any of it