I was bored, and decided to see how much I could get a brand new computer for. Nothing fancy at all, just something that works & the cheapest possible. What I came up with:
- Maxtor 40GB SATAII Hard Drive. (£18.79)
- MSI Socket 775 Motherboard (onboard graphics etc.). (£30.85)
- Intel Celeron 420 Processor (1.6Ghz of pure power
). (£23.50) - 512Mb of DDRII Ram (eBuyer Extra Value, of course). (£9.99)
- LiteOn DVD-Rom (How often do you burn CD’s anyway). (£9.71)
- Casecom 6630 case (Cheapest on there). (£7.99)
- Casecom 300w PSU (Again, the cheapest). (£5.99)
- eBuyer Extra Value 80mm case fan. (£0.99)
That brings the subtotal to just £107.81, not bad for anyone who wants a relatively low specced PC. Throw Linux on there, and you’ll have a perfectly capable word processor/web browser, or even server (to an extent) for that matter. If it wasn’t for the fact that I really didn’t need, or want it, maybe I’d buy it. But, since I have no use for it it’d be a tad pointless.
Quality … certainly something to be desired of some components, eBuyer Value line, casecom
I have to say that is ridiculously cheap. I probably paid about 2-3 times that much for the hardware in my server (initially), although that was about one and a half years ago.
My only concern would be the quality of some of the components at those prices.