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Looking for a new base unit and wondering if anyone has a better recommendation than this one at Dabs for £468.82.

Looking for this price range and at least these specs


Fujitsu/Siemens Scaleo 600.
AMD Athlon 2800, 80GB, 512mb, DVD+RW and a DVD ROM

Snaps

Have you tried looking at ebuy. i am looking at a new base unt aswell and one i was looking at went for £390 and the spec was

Processor :- PENTIUM 4 3.2 GHZ+
Motherboard :- Asus P4S800 [8X AGP/USB2.0]
Memory :- 512mb PC 3200 DDR 400
Hard Drive :- 120GB with 7200rpm
Graphics Card :- 128MB DDR GEFORCE FX5200 +TV Out+8X
Drives :- 16x DVD ROM [ With Power DVD]
Drives :- 52X CD WRITER + BURNING ROM
Warranty :- 12 Month RTB Warranty
Includes :- Floppy Drive, Onboard Sound, 10/100 Lan
Cables, ( No operating system )
USB 2.0, 56k Modem, Software Bundle, All Drivers

all you would have to do is buy xp pro for £75 and install it the guy doing this system had 3222 for a feedback score with 98.7% positive

Yesterdays Scans Today Only had a Tower Athlon 2100, 512Mb, CD Writer, USB, LAN, & sound, for about £240, advised a work colleague to get that with a HDD for £40 & 128Mb Graphics for about £40, with £15 extra on keyboard & optical MS mouse gave a nice little bundle for about £330 inc carriage.

There was also a nice lil USB NIC as a free gift for being a o/l order over £145

They will be reusing the old Win 98 licence, but XP home was about £55 Inc VAT when bought with hardware.

PS at the time of writing its not been updated.

"Great chunks of my past detaching themselves like melting icebergs"


Bigger on the inside

This item was edited on Thursday, 15th April 2004, 11:43

For that price (if you are able enough) you can build your own and have a pentium 4 3.0ghz (trust me this Pentium is a lot faster than even the 3200xp, I have proof ) with a 120 gig hard drive and you get to choose your case (within reason). You may have to shop around and buy from different sources but I have just done it for....£430 and if you already have a pc, some things you will not have to buy if you are willing to donate from the old to the new.

Harley

This item was edited on Thursday, 15th April 2004, 15:40

Can highly recomend the dabsvalue case, the £29 one, it is normal beige colour, tower with aluminium effect panels on the sides, 2 front usb2 ports, 3 x 5 1/4" bays, 1 floppy bay, 2 internal 3 1/2" bays, 420w psu and extra 10cm fan.

All the best

Ger.

Read my older posts as Gerald here

think i might build my own system. anyone have any good websites for pc cases
thanks

This item was edited on Thursday, 15th April 2004, 23:42

x-case

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For that price (if you are able enough) you can build your own
Must admit I`ve considered this option as the only original parts left on the old machine are the case and the soundboard so I`ve been in the guts of it on a regular basis.

The only part that sways the cost is the purchase of XP which is considerably more expensive for a straight purchase than if it was an upgrade. That difference seems to make it worth buying a built unit with XP already installed.

Snaps

why dont you try ebay for a full boxed version of xp

Try www.cclcomputers.biz for cases, seem cheaper than most places (silver zorro style for £43 inc vat inc 450w psu)