Building a budget computer

[Oxy]

I am building a budget computer for a friend. His budget is $600. Its a work computer with no need for 3d-gaming. He wants a fast, quiet and reliable/stable system. I only built amd systems and am most comfortable with amd.

So need:

Case
Motherboard
CPU
Mem
Hd
Dvd-burner

 

[ts3433]

Intel 286
640K RAM
80MB HDD
Black & Decker toaster (burns quite well)

You can come up with the rest.

(Sorry; there's been a Nef Special tonight in OT... I'd first ask exactly what kind of work he's doing so I know whether or not he can just get away with an old Athlon or PIII from FS/FT.)

 

[Oxy]

Well He is Has a PIII800Mhz and thinks that is too slow so the 286 wount fly. He owns an own buissness and does alot of work on his computer. No graphic intense worth though.

 

[ts3433]

I was joking about that.

If he's just doing some general productivity stuff, maybe he just needs to reformat/get a bit more RAM or something.

 

[andy nowotny]

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2500+

Motherboard: MSI K7N2 DELTA2-LSR

Memory: Kingston 512MB DDR400

Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JB 80GB 7200 RPM

DVD Burner: NEC 3520A

Case: Rosewill

 

[DrCrap]

a nice budget pc will be:

DFI "K8T800PRO-ALF" K8T800Pro - $74

A64 - (socket 754) - $109

512mb RAM - $39.99

Western Digital Special Edition 80GB - $61

total - $283.99

DVD burner & case get anything...

that's a great price for a very good system. Throw in there a nice vid. card and you'll get even a powerfull system, which can take some OC'ing (if you're into it..)

 

[Machine350]

Here. $.33 over budget, but he'd have a system that he could even game on.

 

[Sonic587]

What is this PC going to be used for? Just net surfing and word docs?