[BNM] New PC bits -any suggestions

Jason Bailey j.bailey at sussex.ac.uk
Wed Jul 22 09:54:50 BST 2009


Hi

I emailed a few months ago about building a new PC which was very helpful, 
thanks. Except that when I built it, my friend's PC blew-up so I ended up 
selling it to him. Last night my PC blew up and I could probably fix it; 
it's either a new psu or motherboard fuse but as it's about 5 years old I'm 
thinking I should get something new-ish i.e. new motherboard, cpu, memory, 
case and gfx card. Are there any companies that sell this kind of thing as 
a bundle for an extra saving. Aria and Ebuyer don't seem to and I had a bad 
experience with DABS a few years ago so won't go with them for such a large 
order.

On my budget (approx 300 quid) this cpu looks reasonable:
<http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/CPUs+%2F+Processors/Intel/Core+2+Duo/Intel+Core+2+Duo+E8200+2.6GHz+%28Retail+775%29+?productId=36101>
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.6GHz (Retail 775)

I'm going for the retail to cut down on the faffy work so also looking for 
a nice spacious atx case.

There are better but I was hoping to get an amd for about 60 quid so 90-odd 
quid for an intel duo 2 seems ok. Anyone got this and can recommend a good 
motherboard for about 60/70 quid?

Any recommendations? (yes I have a macbook too but this is the family/work 
computer)

Thanks
Jason


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