<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><title></title><head><meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><style type="text/css"> html, body {overflow-x: visible; } html { width:100%; height:100%;margin:0px; padding:0px; overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: auto; }body { font-size: 100.01%; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:transparent; overflow:show; background-image:none; margin:0px; padding:5px; }p { margin:0px; padding:0px; } body { font-size: 12px; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } p { margin: 0; padding: 0; } blockquote { padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; } blockquote.quote { border-left: 1px solid #CCC; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; } .misspelled { background: transparent url(//images.gmx.net/images/outsource/application/mailclient/com/gb/resource_4.7.3.0/mailclient/widgets/basic/parts/maileditor/spellchecking_underline.gif) repeat-x scroll center bottom; } .correct {} .unknown {} .ignored {}</style></head><body id="bodyElement" style=""><basefont size="2" face="Verdana"><title></title><basefont size="2" face="Verdana">Just a quick note, to say do not to underestimate how important it is to get a decent PSU for whatever PC you intend building. Most cheap PSU's are not worth the metal they are made from. They can be the cause of so many "crashing" or "lock up"related problems. They are also very inefficient and generally produce a lot less power than is stated on the box (sometimes as much as 50% less) My advice is to go with a decent unit from say Enermax/Hiper/Antec, with a rating of 80%+ on efficiency. <blockquote class="quote" style="font-size: 12px;" face="Verdana" type="cite">----- Original Message ----- From: Darren Mansell Sent: 12/01/08 10:24 am To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice <div style="">>> > Yep, components are so cheap now, and eBuyer.com are offering free > delivery when you spend over £50 (you have to choose the 5 working day > delivery option but usually the order is delivered within 2 or 3 days > anyway!). > > You'd possibly find though that newer motherboards generally now only > have one IDE connector on board so you'd probably be worth picking up > a Serial ATA hard disk and DVD-Writer unless you already want to > connect existing drives to one IDE channel (but this will limit you to > the two devices). > > I'd say you could pick up a Celeron Dual Core E1200 for about £35, a > suitable motherboard for another £40 (I'd avoid Foxconn though), 1GB > of DDR2 memory (Kingston memory is about £15 for a 1GB kit). A case > will cost about £15 with a cheapo power supply although you may want > to consider something a bit better (I would recommend the Trust power > supply at £17). > > Here's what I'd go for if I was building a cheap system... > > Processor - http://tinyurl.com/5uzldg - £34.25 > Motherboard - http://tinyurl.com/63w69f - £37.94 > Memory - http://tinyurl.com/5626so - £14.68 > Power Supply - http://tinyurl.com/64kgl4 - £17.36 > Case - http://tinyurl.com/5ras3u - £12.71 > DVD writer - http://tinyurl.com/58e5zl - £13.69 > 250GB Hard Drive - http://tinyurl.com/49lree - £29.35 (turns out 250GB > is about £5 more than an 80GB drive!) > Extra SATA cable for DVD writer - http://tinyurl.com/6bdbo6 - £2.50 > > So for under £165 you'll have pretty much a new PC which will keep you > going for maybe another 8 years or so. > > You could probably get a dual core Athlon X2 system for around the > same sort of price too if you'd rather go for an AMD based system over > an Intel one. > > Rob > I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19" wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about £300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ </div></blockquote> </body></html>