dan_m1les
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Hi,
I'm after just a cheapy tower to run though my pc in my room just to browse the Internet/ listen to music.play some old games on.
Any know any good sites for them? Would rater not buy of ebay.
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Brett
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Can't see the problem with ebay myself. Ebuyer do refurbished machines iirc if you're lookin for cheap.
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dan_m1les
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I'm not too good with pc specs is the problem, so looking on ebay I would just get lost!
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ed
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IF I was looking for a PC that would do web browsing e.t.c... then I'd be looking at something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Asrock-NetTop-ION-330-Mini-ITX-Black-PC-Back-in-stock_W0QQitemZ320435996782QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_DesktopPCs?hash=item4a9b79486e
Nice and small, pretty cheap too 
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Pablo
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^ that would do the job lovely
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Brett
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If he wants to buy new maybe, but he can do exactly this with a £40 machine off ebay. There was a similar thread a few days ago. If you like wasting money then fair enough. Ok, you'd have a warranty, but even if the £40 machine went wrong wants it gonna cost you? Another £40? It wouldn't do anyway I'm sure, mine hasn't. Got a nice IBM desktop myself and it's ace tbh.
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ed
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Didn't realise you could get them so cheap...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-Optiplex-FX160-Mini-PC-Atom-1-6GHz_W0QQitemZ260493966126QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_DesktopPCs?hash=item3ca6a67b2e
Dell say they are for single application use which is useful when you've got your anti virus running, iTunes playing some music and your web browser running. I don't quite understand why though, because it isn't lacking anything apart from maybe another 512mb of RAM.
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Brett
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Honestly, I got an IBM P4 3Ghz desktop for £40, bought another 1GB of ram for it for a tenner to bump it up to 2GB, plus a 128MB 3dfx card with DVI so I could run it via HDMI to my tv. Stands me all in at £60. Can't fault it and I used flash/photoshop a lot at the same time whilst playing tunes, etc.
[Edited on 26-10-2009 by loafofbrett]
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M2RTY
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i just bought one of these as a bare system thing for media PC in living room
http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/602310/ACER-ASPIRE-X3812/tab/specification
lot cheaper then 330 they wanted for it, or 530 in PC world LOL. HAs 1TB HDD, HDMI, optical audio etc. Very small and quiet, just needs a bluray drive
perfect with my wireless trackball/media control
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deano87
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http://www.bigpockets.co.uk
Loads of bargains on there.
[Edited on 26-10-2009 by deano87]
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Sunz
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Dell one is so cheap because they load free OS on them, Linux. Might be hard to get used to it if you never used it before.
I wouldn't really want to run anything less then 2.0ghz cpu and at least 1gb ram.
Ebay is fine.
My sister got a pc from there for £100.
Amd 7850 dual core 2.8ghz
Asrock N68-S
Ati hd2600
2gb ddr800 ram
120gb hd
Pc parts are very cheap for what you need you don't need to spend more then £100.
But it depends on "old" games to what graphics card will be suitable.
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ed
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You can get a copy of 7, Vista or XP for about £60 if you wanted to go legit. Would still work out cheap enough.
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Brett
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Wow, people run legit Windows? 
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jamied
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I have for years 
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ed
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I do. MSDN FTW 
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Rob_Quads
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
I do. MSDN FTW
Do you use email on your computer - if you do then your MSDN license does not cover it i.e. your just as illegal as everyone else. MSDN is only for development environment and specifically lists a number of things you can't use it for.
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ed
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When I said MSDN I really meant MSDNAA. You're just restricted to non-commercial activity.
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Rob_Quads
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Ah your in education - bit different
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