Comments on: The £250 challenge – let battle commence

By: The £250 Challenge: the victor speaks | PC Pro blog

The £250 Challenge: the victor speaks | PC Pro blog — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:33:26 +0000

[...] So, the votes have been counted, analysed and re-counted, and the results are in: my cobbled-together self-build PC has won the £250 Challenge. [...]

By: The £250 Challenge: Vote for the High Street | PC Pro blog

The £250 Challenge: Vote for the High Street | PC Pro blog — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:27:45 +0000

[...] on this?”) it soon became obvious that getting a desktop PC with a monitor, as required by the £250 Challenge – wasn’t possible for £250. I could have managed £280, but not £250. So in the end I went for [...]

By: Finally - the self-build PC lives | PC Pro blog

Finally - the self-build PC lives | PC Pro blog — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:59:16 +0000

[...] long and arduous process: ever since our esteemed Editor challenged me and four of my colleagues to acquire computers for £250 – with Stuart Turton trying to blag one for free – I’ve been scratching around dozens of [...]

By: The Goodwill PC grinds to a halt | PC Pro blog

The Goodwill PC grinds to a halt | PC Pro blog — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:19:21 +0000

[...] the £250 PC Challenge. To bring you up to speed, while Tim was stuffing my colleagues’ underwear with £20 notes so they could run out and build their PCs, I was left to go cap-in-hand to see if I could build or [...]

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:22:47 +0000

hmmm… what paperwork do we have to present? Only I got a pile of HP workstations for £500, and 2 have been sold for £300 each, so what are the last 2 worth inside these rules? Cause I coudl put bot procesors & RAM in one case… they are dual 3.4’s with SATA drives and Quadro cards…

By: Second-hand? Several days-hand, more like | PC Pro blog

Second-hand? Several days-hand, more like | PC Pro blog — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:59:50 +0000

[...] it’s done: over the weekend I bit the bullet and ordered my second-hand PC for the £250 Challenge. It’s a decent-looking machine, with a Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM and a 19in TFT, which [...]

By: Zero Hour approaches for my £250 build | PC Pro blog

Zero Hour approaches for my £250 build | PC Pro blog — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:11:35 +0000

[...] and several of my colleagues are currently taking part in a unique challenge – buying or building a PC for £250 and discovering whether the high street, the internet or building the machine yourself yields the [...]

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:48:35 +0000

I’ll let Darien know!

By: Kevin SMith

Kevin SMith — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:42:40 +0000

I have a Dell 9150 with 4GB RAM, nVidia 7800GTX 512MB, eSATA PCI card and WinXP Pro for sale for £250… Any takers! lol

By: First stop: Dell’s PC emporium | PC Pro blog

First stop: Dell’s PC emporium | PC Pro blog — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:19:38 +0000

[...] my job this fortnight, as you may have discovered in Tim’s call to arms, is to spend £250 of his money on a brand new fully-built PC or laptop, using only the medium of [...]