Good deal or try again?......

[Stallion]

My folks are looking to get a new PC as there old one has finally craped out. It's an old p133. Well a friend of theres said he could get them a k6-2 500, 32mg ram ,soyo board, 40x cd and a 64 bit vid card and a 6.4 gig hd dma33 for $499. I told them they need to spend another $300 and at least get a PIII 650 and 128mg ram....

Are the k6-2 good proccesors? I just figured that why not step up and get a PIII. Plus we could o/c it to at least 750-775. I know it will go higher but we are talking senior citizens..

 

[Eug]

32 Mb RAM is quite useless nowadays. BARE minimum is 64. 96+ is nice. Under Windows 98, 32 is not only slow, it can be unstable as well.

Also, the drive is quite small. Spend $20 more for a good sized drive.

Do not overclock the machine at all. If they were using a P133 then either the k6-2 500 or PIII will wow them. You're just asking for trouble otherwise.

64-bit vid card? Huh? Dunno what that means.

Good monitor?

 

[da loser]

64bit= 64bit bus =really old, well about pentium days i think. go look at www.overstock.com they got some e-machines for $400 cel400 or so, there's a $20 off 50 and free ship, refurb i think. or ask red dawn or post in ft/fs forum, you can do better for $500 or so.

 

[DBavaria]

Senior citizens may be slow but dangerous behind the wheel, i suggest give them a hoopty for example a p-200 p2-333

 

[Ulysses]

If like a lot of adults they surf and e-mail a lot, what they really might like is high speed internet access (cable or DSL) if it's available at reasonable cost.

For a PC the best performance/price ratio might be a new AMD Duron CPU based system, if you can find them available yet. This is an example of where the integrated audio/video is really nice.

 

[DDad]

Sounds a little high to me- check over at http://www.pricewatch.com

Nothing wrong with a K6-2. If you're into the games, it's not the best, but will run most everything else satisfactorly
BTW, this is almost the same sort of deal I had to do for my Mom 3 months ago- she went from a Cyrix 166 to a K6-2 500,MB, 96 mb ram. I charged her my cost- wound up under 250

 

[Outlaw]

For your parents I would have to recommend a Dell system . Very good price when you consider what you are getting for the money. What is most important with a preconfigured system and the Un-savey computer user is "Warranty". They will get value for their money.

Or sell them on Gateway's 2 year trade in policy.

Either one is a smart move for the unknowing consumer.

 

[Stallion]

I too was a little confused when it said 64bit video, I automaticaly thought 64mg and thought ,holy crap what kind of card are they givin out. I might just talk them into letting me put one together for them. I built a Celly 466@525, abit be6-II,128mg Ram ,sb live value,voodoo 3 2000 AGP and a generic case for $650, and other misc goodies, for the wife. So I'm sure a similar one would be cheaper now.

Thanks for the in-put and time...

The best part is I get their old one to try and get it runnin again and maybe speed it up so I can load seti on it.