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Novatech Barebone Bundle - Intel Celeron E3200 - 2Gb DDR2 800Mhz - Intel G31 Motherboard - 4 Bay ATX Tower Case & PSU £129.99


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# Intel Celeron E3200 2.4Ghz
# 2Gb 240Pin DDR2 800Mhz
# ATX Tower Case With 400w PSU
# Intel G31 + ICH7 Motherboard

This is a very hot deal as at this moment in time - it's actually more expensive to buy the parts seperately and put them together yourself. This comes prebuilt (obviously without hard drive/dvd drive etc.) and comes to about £20 cheaper than buying everything seperately.

NB. They are also selling Windows 7 Home Premium retail for £83 at the moment, and with his bundle, you can get £10 off that too making it £73 - bargain considering Windows 7 has actually been released now!!

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is this any good ? is this better than AMD ?
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it's based on the same architecture as the core 2 duo and pentium dual core chips. It is better than AMD because its 45nm, has a core clock of 2.4ghz and can be overclocked higher, and it has 1mb cache alongside an 800mhz FSB. Just because it's celeron doesnt make it rubbish - in fact it's great.

Plus, this celeron chip has Intel Virtualization meaning you can you the Windows XP Mode in Professional and Ultimate versions of the new Windows 7
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any free delivery codes ?
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will that take a radeon 9200 se graphics card ?
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There's a free delivery option available anyway...

...and with the question about the 9200, if it is a PCI or PCI-Express Card, then it'll work fine (maybe not with Windows 7 though....). If its an AGP card though, then it won't work - these modern boards don't have AGP slots.
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it's based on the same architecture as the core 2 duo and pentium dual core chips. It is better than AMD because its 45nm, has a core clock of 2.4ghz and can be overclocked higher, and it has 1mb cache alongside an 800mhz FSB. Just because it's celeron doesnt make it rubbish - in fact it's great.

Plus, this celeron chip has Intel Virtualization meaning you can you the Windows XP Mode in Professional and Ultimate versions of the new Windows 7
lol better than amd, depends on which amd cpu you are referring too. There are lots of amd 45nm cpus out there too.

£20 cheaper? £127.93 with a 450w psu so lukewarm for me as its similar price to buying it separately but it comes pre built.
£33.93 for the cpu
2gb cruical ram
gigabyte g31 motherboard
caseom atx case and 450w psu
£127.93 free delivery
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The CPU's relatively horrendous to be honest.

saying this is better than an AMD cpu is just silly. It'll trounce an original semperon or an athlon tbird, and my phenom ii will absolutely bury it.

[edit] for the record, my chip's 45nm. equally, did someone REALLY just boast about 1MB of L2 cache? Have I hit a time warp? [/edit]
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is this any good ? is this better than AMD ?
Better than AMD what? AMD is a manufacturer of processors, graphics cards, and more.

Personally, due to past experiences, I'd stay clear of anything with Celeron on it.
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it's based on the same architecture as the core 2 duo and pentium dual core chips. It is better than AMD because its 45nm, has a core clock of 2.4ghz and can be overclocked higher, and it has 1mb cache alongside an 800mhz FSB. Just because it's celeron doesnt make it rubbish - in fact it's great.
All this means nothing when you take into account clock for clock performance.
Depending on the processor, a 2.6Ghz genericbrand1 could provide better performance than a 3.6Ghz genericbrand2.

Indeed, the name alone doesn't mean it is rubbish, however, don't expect too much from it. Celeron is and has always been Intel's budget range.
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why not just pay £90 more and get a 2.93ghz dual core, 750gb sata2 hdd, dvdrw and 4GB RAM

this is a poor deal imho
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This Celeron has 45nm Wolfdale core and 1mb of cache .It's not going to be any slower than Pentium Dual Core E2xxx and not that much than E5XXX or E6XXX @the same clock - it's fairly decent CPU and very good overclocker too.

IMO, the only cons of the series is lack of speedstep and VR, first one is not performance related and the second reserved for E6XXX + ,so far more expensive too (I meam %) .

More than enough power for vast majority of PC users.
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Decent if you're building a spare or for someone else but little room for expansion:
1 x PCIe x16
1 x PCIe x1
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Not bad for a budget PC, but.. Intel boards are very basic, so not many tweeks will be possible.

What 400W PSU?

I think you would be better to cherry pick quality parts.Ebuyer sell a Be quiet! 350W PSU for around £30. Cases can be as little as £20.

Cheap stick of RAM etc.. AMD Athlon II for £40 and a 740, 760 or 780G board will come out around the same price and be far better in the long run imo.
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Decent if you're building a spare or for someone else but little room for expansion:
1 x PCIe x16
1 x PCIe x1
that is becos the motherboard is the micro atx form factor. So the motherboard is small, cheap and lacks expansion slots.
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