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green dinosaur
12th Sep 2004, 14:47
Hi guys my old gateway P2 pc has gone to heaven. I'm now split between buying a new one, or repairing the old one!!
I dont have much money to spend on a new one!! The monitor is still good as is the case, keyboard, mouse, harddisk and CD-RW!!
Does anyone have any good ideas about cheap (but good) motherboards, memory, chips, video card and soundcard that I could buy!!
mikedurward
12th Sep 2004, 15:30
Hiya
I get all my spares and pc bits and bobs from
http://www.pless.co.uk
Give then a try
Mike
It is cheaper to buy a new base unit. See here (www.aria.co.uk/NewDisplaySystems.asp?BrandID=12) for £180 + delivery, assuming you load your own OS.
Only a 1.6Ghz, but compared to a P2 it will fly...
spannersatcx
12th Sep 2004, 16:58
Novatech (http://www.novatech.co.uk) and Dabs (http://www.dabs.com) do motherboard bundles and barebone systems as well.
Naples Air Center, Inc.
12th Sep 2004, 17:30
green dinosaur,
Here are some options:
Constructing a PC (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=143967)
Do you have the specs on your Hard Drive and your CD Burner?
You will need to upgrade your Power Supply, since hardware is a lot more demanding now compared to the days of the PII.
Take Care,
Richard
P.S. These days CD Burners are dirt cheap and Hard Drives are not much more. ;)