So I'm going to be building my parents a new PC after 7 years of dealing with this Dell desktop. 1.8 GHz P4 (pre-northwood), 512MB RDRAM, GeForce 3 Ti200, lots of old crap.
EDIT: Forgot the prerequisite stuff:
1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
really all the basic stuff, word processing, some database stuff, my sister likes to play some non-demanding games on it
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
probably $700, $800 is the limit including the monitor
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
USA
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.
I like Intel.
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Nope, brand new
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
Er, not really
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
If I can do a safe and stable overclock, I'll do it
8. WHEN do you plan to build it?
pretty darn soon, this month probably
So, I figure I'll ask you guys for help building a nice budget PC that will last a while. Here's what I figure:
CPU: one of the Intel E2000s
Motherboard: nothing fancy at all, just something that will be reliable and work
Case+PS: again nothing fancy, but I don't want a plastic piece of crap
Video Card: don't want on-board graphics, but something cheap that will play, say, Starcraft 2
RAM: 2X1GB, or 2X2GB? I figure you can never have enough, but is 4GB overdoing it?
Monitor: Now this I want to be kinf nice, maybe a 19 inch LCD
Hard Drive: whatever is the best deal at the time
DVD Burner: don't know anything about today's burners, just something that will work
So, if someone wants to fill in some of the blanks, that would help me out greatly.
EDIT: Forgot the prerequisite stuff:
1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
really all the basic stuff, word processing, some database stuff, my sister likes to play some non-demanding games on it
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
probably $700, $800 is the limit including the monitor
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
USA
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.
I like Intel.
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Nope, brand new
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
Er, not really
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
If I can do a safe and stable overclock, I'll do it
8. WHEN do you plan to build it?
pretty darn soon, this month probably
So, I figure I'll ask you guys for help building a nice budget PC that will last a while. Here's what I figure:
CPU: one of the Intel E2000s
Motherboard: nothing fancy at all, just something that will be reliable and work
Case+PS: again nothing fancy, but I don't want a plastic piece of crap
Video Card: don't want on-board graphics, but something cheap that will play, say, Starcraft 2
RAM: 2X1GB, or 2X2GB? I figure you can never have enough, but is 4GB overdoing it?
Monitor: Now this I want to be kinf nice, maybe a 19 inch LCD
Hard Drive: whatever is the best deal at the time
DVD Burner: don't know anything about today's burners, just something that will work
So, if someone wants to fill in some of the blanks, that would help me out greatly.
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