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[bertiecbx550]

My pc died this morning   it would not boot up or anything   i rang a lad who helped me get rid of a virus last year he came and had a look an told me that my motherboard had decided to fry its self he took it out an showed me it     then it got worse i`m looking at £100 upwards for a decent motherboard an possibly other items required to get it up an running again     so for now i`m using the missus laptop whilst i decide which way i wanna go with this... i might just junk the pc and get a 2nd hand pc outa the bargain pages as there is no way i can afford a new pc i had a look at em this morning at pc world and comet...     never rains but it pours does`nt  

[Ken T]

Never mind, there are lots of good deals out there. Why not consider a laptop? I got a slightly damaged one ( Lid cracked) for £125. It has an Athlon 64, DVD writer etc. Plus Laptops take a lot less power than PC's so the electricity bill will go down!. My Athlon 2G machine/monitor takes about 375watts, a celeron 1.5G laptop less than 60Watts.  
Cheers Ken

[Danny]

did you lose everything then???

i wouldnt go second hand while you can get dirt cheap brand new with a warranty, unless you have specific needs that require better than bog standard

[bertiecbx550]

i aint got no specific needs i only tat about an play games and chat with you guys..only prob i got is money..i`m still waiting to hear if ive got a job to go back too at comet...

[Danny]

ah of course

[IrmscherKris]

My mate has a base unit for sale IIRC £150... Dell thats all I can remember.  

[Ken T]

Plenty bargains about. New : http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMD-AM2-DUAL-CORE-4200-MOTHERBOARD-1GB-DDR2-MEM_W0QQitemZ260162083923QQihZ016QQcategoryZ131514QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem thats an AMD dual core processor, board plus 1G ram. Or 2nd hand http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMD-XP-2800-Burton-PC-CHIPs-Motherboard-512-DDR_W0QQitemZ110172828050QQihZ001QQcategoryZ131514QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem slower processor, less ram, but will still do it. New is nice, if you can afford the £500 PC world want for their latest deal, but you can do pretty well for a whole lot less.
Ken

[TheBoy]

Strangely enough, our old server is dead as well   - I knew it wouldn't take another reboot.  (Shame I need to get it back up to remove AD from it)

[sounds2k]

have a look on the PC base units section of the bigpockets website - they have a few base units there, even complete systems - it depends on how demanding the games are that you want to play as to whether those systems are suitable ...