Building a computer

[80Stik]

I am building a comp from scratch and have never really put one together myself and need info. I have a 81K1100 Rev 1.0 mobo and a 3.2 ghz nothwood (HT) and the case so far. I know i need alot more stuff so any input would help. I would like something fast mainly for school and surfing the web. Some minor gaming would be nice too. What Harddrive, what optical drive? Things like that. Hopefully i dnt screw up along the way. Thanx

 

[KoolDrew]

budget?

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
budget?

what is it for?

 

[ribbon13]

Seasonic S12-430
NEC ND-3520a

How much HDD space do you need?

 

[80Stik]

Budget is normal i guess not crazy expensive. 160 HD or somaybe higher. Its for school work and websurfing and some minor gaming

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: 80Stik
Budget is normal i guess not crazy expensive. 160 HD or somaybe higher. Its for school work and websurfing and some minor gaming

normal can be $500 to $2000 around here

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: 80Stik
Budget is normal i guess not crazy expensive. 160 HD or somaybe higher. Its for school work and websurfing and some minor gaming

normal can be $500 to $2000 around here

unless you are ribbon13 and normal means $30-40K

 

[MonkeyWrench4000]

Your saying minor gaming?

If you even plan to leave the desktop your going to want at least a 9600pro, which can be had for $100 at newegg. (thats the budget solution)

For give or take $175 you could get a Nvidia 6600GT which would allow you to do any minor gaming very well.

You already have a 3.2ghz northwood, and it would be pointless to purchase a low end graphics card for such a nice cpu.

See I am still not sure what sort of money your looking to spend...

lets assume that you have $400 left to spend??

you could pick up 2 sticks of 512mb pc3200 from Wintec off of newegg for $37 each with shipping.

As far as your optical drives go, you can get SONY cd-r drives for as low as $30, and generic ones for even less. I never over spend on optical drives.

A good brand hard drive like Western Digital, running at 7200rpm, with 160gb capacity is usually around $90 also.

You can build a pretty nice system, pretty cheap. Once again, with more information, we can narrow down a build for you. I just tried to build you a system that was very cost effective.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: 80Stik
Budget is normal i guess not crazy expensive. 160 HD or somaybe higher. Its for school work and websurfing and some minor gaming

normal can be $500 to $2000 around here

unless you are ribbon13 and normal means $30-40K

Ribbon13 can't be described as normal in any respect.

 

[80Stik]

Well you are about right in ur estimate. I have a bout 500 more to spend. Can always bump it up a little to get something that will boost up the juice some more.