building advice for computer

[T2urtle]

a friend asked me to build them a rig for $300. No gaming no nothing really. Just like web surfing and other weird little tasks that dont suck up a lot of CPU power.

I figure i'll get them parts off the F/S forum but i dunno what kinda speds to get them. for the $200 some price range ( 100$ for the moniter/keyboard/mouse)

he told me he wanted to save as much money as possible.

 

[KoolDrew]

Is there anything they can use from there old PC to save costs such as monitor? What would they neeed to buy?

 

[T2urtle]

they got a crappy dell. one those $300 rigs aboug 1.5 years old that craps out too often blue screen comes up too much.

I doubt anything would be transferable maybe the HD if anything.

They would need all the parts.

Hopefully a mobo with built in lan/sound/video to help cut down costs. I wanted to pick up a fry's sempron combo for like 89$ then pick up a case ram and just figure out the moniter issue.

 

[AtlantaBob]

Truly, it might be good to look at Hot Deals for a Dell. I now have a Celeron D 2.54 (or something like that, it's late) with 512 MB RAM and a 80 GB HDD for $250 off of Dell's Small Business deals. Indeed, it's not what I use day to day, but it's not bad at all.

Any reason why you say the monitor isn't transferable (other than the fact that most computer geeks like something more than 640x480 or 800x600 these days?)

 

[ShadowBlade]

if you can find a super socket 7 motherboard, and newegg is still carrying K6's, build him a K6 system, cpu $17, last i checked

edit: i checked, newegg unfortunately doesnt carry the K6 anymore...the cheapest cpu on there is the duron 1.6 applebreed, $42.99 (huge ripoff, compared to the $17 K6)
so going on that, heres the system i reccomend:

cpu above: $42.99
PC CHIPS M825G V9.2A Socket A (Socket 462) VIA KM266Pro Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail: $34.99
A-DATA 128MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 333 (PC 2700) System Memory - OEM: $11.50
Foxconn TLM487 Black/Silver Steel MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case 250W Power Supply - Retail: $32.50
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST340014A 40GB 7200 RPM 2MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM: $54
SAMSUNG Beige 52X CD-ROM IDE CD-ROM Drive - OEM: $14

total: $221.28 all new items from newegg (includes shipping)
note: this is one of the sh!ttiest computers ever, i went to newegg, searched items that would fit together and took the one that cost the least

 

[The Pentium Guy]

You might be better off going with a name brand PC, kind of hard to get a custom that price, but hell I might be very wrong.

 

[sniperruff]

nforce2 IGP + barton 2500 = ~$150
any HD on sale = ~$60
antec case + PSU = ~$60
dvd burner = $50

$20 over, but it's a complete computer that will kick mine's ass.

 

[SVT Cobra]

you forgot RAM@above

go with another dell or something, becuase with some systems they lose money on them, anything you build custom will be crap for that price...

 

[T2urtle]

i was at pricewatch and the had some semprons 2200 cpu/board and 256mb ram. for like $100. I'm not too big with semprons but they are the celeron type for AMD right?

board/cpu/ram = $100
$40 HD
case. $40
dvd drive = 30$

should be right about $210 i think thats good enough.

but i'll be hunt around the FS forum

 

[sniperruff]

yeah i agree go get one of those $300 dell's that come with OS. no assembly required plus warranty.

 

[fuentefan]

maybe try re-installing windows.....