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Building a Rig for a friend

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TechBoyJK

Lifer
My friend has about $400 every two weeks to spare. he wants to build a new rig in steps, using what cash he has every two weeks to build a rig up. He currenlty has a 450Mhz AMD k6-2 with a 10 gig drive, but its in a newer case with a 250Watt PS.

I recommended first buying a mobo, cpu, ram combo.

This is what we plan to get

AMD64 Venice 3000+

GIGABYTE GA-K8NXP-SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

Corsair Ram

I assume I'll also need some sticky and a cpu fan. Anything else I should add to the list. My plan is to replace the mobo/cpu/ram, and use his existing hdd, cdrom, case, ps until the following paycheck, in which he will get a sata hdd, a new cd/dvd burner, and a new case with bigger PS. Then the next payday he's getting a second hdd so he can put it in a raid 1 config.
 
If that is the computer he is used to, then he's probably not a gamer or using any serious CPU hogging programs.

A S754 Sempron should be adequate.

Get the retail version of CPU, it has a fine CPU fan for the A64s and not terribly loud.

I would NOT put some casual user into an on-board RAID config of any kind. If his motherboard ever craps out he's going to run straight to you and you're going to have to tell him to replace with the same motherboard JUST to get the stuff off his drives, even though it's been 3 years, that motherboard is no longer available and he'd rather upgrade to current technology.

Mybe I'm misinterpreting, because you seem to be going all out with SLI also. Seems to me like you're going WAY overboard for someone who is used to a K6 and clearly living paycheck to paycheck if he needs to do his upgrade in stages based on his paycheck distributions.

Keep things simple. If you are helping him build this, you have to also understand that you will be tech support FOREVER. This is why I don't volunteer to help friends build compuers much anymore, it is always a losing proposition for me. I get a meal and some beer and my friend gets free 24 tech support for life.
 
well actually, he wants to start getting into 3d rendering, as well as be able to play doom 3. He also does alot of stuff with Reason, and other music programs, and he is pretty limited to what he can do with his current machine.
 
Originally posted by: nick1985
you couldnt pay me to run that equipment on a 250 watt PSU. most likely you will ruin the hardware
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depends on the quality of the PSU, if its a sparkle,antec, or fortron i'd have no problems, especially without a huge video card.
 
Yea I would definatly run a bigger PSU such as the Antec SP 400 watt. The fun part will be when it comes time to get a new case.🙂I reccomend the Antec PlusView 1000AMG. It will be great unless he wants to take it to lan parties. I personally own it myself and it's great.
 
Originally posted by: shoRunner
Originally posted by: nick1985
you couldnt pay me to run that equipment on a 250 watt PSU. most likely you will ruin the hardware
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depends on the quality of the PSU, if its a sparkle,antec, or fortron i'd have no problems, especially without a huge video card.
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??? even my HP running a geforce 440MX uses a 280...
 
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