AMD office/home build

[Dravic]

GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - $89.99

Thermaltake TR2 W0070RUC 430W ATX Power Supply - Retail
$40.99

AMD Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core Processor Model
$87.00

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit $84.99

$309 shipped

USE : office/home pc, email, bills, occasional multimedia need, and kids game

have all other parts needed

While it wont be used for gaming it will need to fire up the occasional 3d kids educational game (e.g. jumpstart world games, zoo tycoon...). The AMD/ATI intergrated video should do that in spades...

looked at dell's etc.. but having never brought a store brought PC, i cant bring myself to pull the trigger on sub standard parts. (also paying for an OS which i already have)


someone hook me up with an intel version please...

 

[ther00kie16]

e2160 - $70
Gigabyte EP35-DS3L - $98
ATI 3450 - $30 (better than 780g, which is based on the 2400)

Best integrated graphics right now for Intel is probably nvidia's 7150, which isn't that great.
You can wait for nvidia's 8200/8300 to come out for intel (this is still worse than 780g by a good margin) or intel's g45/g43. These will probably be out late summer (so august).