Im looking to build a whole new pc (except case)

I want good quality for as cheap as possible. Any suggestions?

 

What are you primarily going to be using the PC for? Gaming, video editing, surfing the web, etc...

Any preferences on AMD/Intel?

 

I play games, do video editing.. now that generally requires alot of speed..
my system cost me £500 for everything except powersupply / floppy / cdrom.

However if you wanted a cheap pc, thats powerful and fast.. and your not going to be pushing it exactly to the max, even if your an avid gamer.. i would suggest a 754 64Bit AMD board..

MSI K8 Neo Platinum 754 Pin - £80
AMD 64 2800+ 754 Pin - £70
512mb Value Select Corsair PC3200 - £65
Ati 9800 Pro 128mb - £120
Western Digital / Seagate 80GB - £45
400W Antec Power Supply - £70

£450.00 (not including floppy / cdrom drive and case)

If you want a cheaper system i would look at a K7 AMD Board such as:
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe nForce2 - £60
AMD Athlon "Mobile" XP2500-M Barton - £60
Corsair 512MB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS3.0 Kit (2x256MB) - £65
OcUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB - £100
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 120GB ATA-100 2MB Cache - £50
400W Antec Power Supply - £70

£405.00 (" ")

Now you could build a K7 AMD based pc for around £250, however you would lack good quality parts as you have suggested..

This maybe to much for what you need, however since you did not mention i have built to pcs that whilst are not top notch and won't support the latest technology cpu / memory wise (or atleast utilize it) i have given you two pcs that will play games / video editing very nicely.. for a good price ..

hope this helps
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* Prices from wwww.overclockers.co.uk

*Edit, my idea of good "quality" is shown, not cheap..

 

Those are solid specs, and I have to agree on the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe, which is what I run in my main box. If you want something cheaper than that and don't need all the bells and whistles, the ECS N2U400-A would be another good board unless you really want to OC the hell out of your system. The N2U400-A does not have SATA like the A7N8X-E Dlx does, but if you want a cheap, solid motherboard, that's an excellent choice.

Besides Antec, you might look at some Sparkle/Fortron (same company, just different brands) or some of Thermaltake's power supplies, as these seem to be quite good.

As for RAM, get PC3200 from something like Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, Samsung, GeiL or Mushkin. I wouldn't get any less than 512MB, and at the prices these days, you really should at least consider going to 1GB.

 

This PC would be primarily for gaming and graphics. However I don't need anything amazing. My preference is deffinately amd got an intel (pentium 4) pc currently its :swear:

 

I like the first option by procalx and i'm about to buy the parts but if ne1 else has anything different plz post coz i can always make a few pcs

 

Not really, though, if you can, you might find it highly beneficial to go to 1GB.

 

Yes BigB is right, 1GB would be highly beneficial..

however i would say one thing, after just receiving my parts for my new PC i have an incredible like for the GeiL range of memory, the memory is amazing.. i have (2x256mb)512mb PC3200 Geil Golden Value memory.. however this is so good that i can overclock this stable to 265mhz (but you need sufficient cooling) for the cpu and good case temperature.

I would highly recommend the Geil range, my Geil 512mb Golden value PC3200 ram, performs 0.75% less than 512mb Corsair XMSPC3200 (in tests) however it the corsair can overclock slightly more..

 

k thnx