PC for my mum

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I use the 600W version of that PSU and have never had a single problem with it.
To keep cost down I probs will be going for the 450W one but thanks very much for the suggestion

or instead of the PSU i could get summin like a 3600+ X2
 
My First Piece of Advice: Follow B1gapl's advice over mine ;)

If he says its a bad Psu, I wouldn't buy it.

Its not the power that's the issue.

Cheap PSUs can take out the entire system.

That's REALLY expensive for such a simple system...

This prebuilt is better by a lot for $500:

Your TigerDirect.com Shopping Cart

Barebone that beats it for $250:

MachSpeed MSNV-939 Socket 939 Barebone Kit AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ OEM 200GB IDE HDD 1GB DDR PC3200 CPU Fan ATX Mid-Tower Case with a 450 Watt Power Supply at TigerDirect.com

A breakdown of that barebone for about the same price seperately, in case you don't need all the parts, I also added in a 320gb HD. Am not sure how good the PSU is. I don't know much about PSUs.

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$99.99 CPU/MB/X2 3800+ http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2945301&Sku=MBM-MSNV-3800
$39.99 CASE/PSU 500w   http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1187021&Sku=ULT31795
$54.99 1gb RAM         http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1071020&CatId=147
$29.99 DVD Burner      http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3110653&Sku=O451-1000
$79.99 320gb HD        http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=2268595&sku=TSD-320AS&CMP=EMC-TIGEREMAIL&SRCCODE=WEM1420

Total: $304.95
 
OK, ILL BUY THE PSU!!, the system for $500 dollars has no monitor or OS, this system will be used for basic stuff
 
Actually, the $500 system does have Windows Vista Premium.

I wasn't advocating buying a pre-built system, just trying to point out the one you laid out seems pretty overpriced.

Nothing wrong with building a lower end system, I just wouldn't pay that much for a lower end system, when I can get a better one cheaper.
 
you do have a point, ill look into building a better system for a similiar price or a similiar system for even less
 
Erm Nickm 926 is UK. Eberyone knows that uk is always muck more expensive than USA, so the build may seem more expensive to you that Uk people.
 
good point Vaanish, i thought id made it ovbious by putting £s instead of $s, and it says in my Location but oh well
 
Possibly, but I hope for his sake its overpriced, as that is over twice what I'd pay for that build...
 
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