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rebuilding comp for my dad

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supaidaaman

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im giving my dad my x2 4200 (939) so i can upgrade to the 4800 on my rig. He has decided that he wants to learn how to do some basic video editing (i highly doubt he will edit anything over 2 min long though)

Im basically just interested in getting him a new motherboard and ram that would be nice for the x2 4200.

Any suggestions?

maybe this Asus A8N5X ATX

or

MSI K8N Neo-F ATX

 
The asus a8n-e is an upgraded version of the a8n5x that you linked. It adds SATA2 support for faster transfer rates and some bios upgrades. All in all, it seems people have had better luck with the a8n5x, but if you want some more features go with the a8n-e which is like $10 more.
For RAM, any name brand will do, though prices are through the roof ATM. I would get him some dual channel corsair valueselect. It's like $115.
Anything else he needs upgraded?
 
maybe get a seagate 7200.10 250gb. If he needs that much, that's the best value/performance upgrade. If not, then there are 160gb hdds for $50 now.
For a vid card, if he does any gaming a 7600gt is good. They go for $115 AR. If that's too expensive then a 7600gs is $85 and the 7300gt is $70. ATi's lowend offerings aren't worth your consideration.
 
Does your father already have a computer or will this be a completely new system for him using your old processor? In other words, do you already have a case, optical drives, hard drive, PSU, graphics card, floppy drive, etc.? Based on your last post on this thread, it sounds like all you have for him is the processor.
 
If you father does not do any gaming, then why not get a motherboard with integrated video like the ECS RS480-M V1.0 for $56.99. You will save the cost of a graphics card.

Get the lowest priced value RAM available. If your father will be doing some video editing, then get 1GB.

As for a hard drive, I would pick up either a SATA or PATA drive with a minimum of 300 GB. This is because he is doing video editing - eats a lot of space.
 
I'm using the Biostar TForce 6100-939 mATX for my home office work PC, it's been very solid. $75 shipped at ZipZoomFly, $70+ship at newegg (but out of stock there).

2 IDE ports (4 devices), 2 SATA ports, 4 RAM slots, onboard nvidia 6100 graphics plus a PCI-E slot.

If you want to go for quiet cool I'm running it with an X2 3800+ and Zalman 7000B-alcu and with the Zalman inaudible with closed case (Antec NSK4400 -- very quiet) my CPU temp stayed under 40C during the summer with no AC.

I have the Asus A8N-E for my gaming PC and it has also been a solid MB, with more features than the Biostar except no onboard video.
 
I would suggest 2gb for video editing, but yeah since DDR prices blew up like a balloon, who knows.

Yeah a mobo with some integrated video will probably serve him better.. I've owned ECS and although their boards are no-frill cheap cost ones they're reliable (I had one powering my Duron from 2000 until I missed with the screwdriver and WHAM i ran into the board)

As for a HDD (which a ton of ppl are mentioning), I picked up a 200GB SATA from Fry's (Outpost.com) for 55 bucks (usually 50 online)

Not bad, I sohuld think, at roughly 25 cents a gig
 
The Antec NSK4400 is very quiet without any extra work and comes with a decent PSU for a non-gaming system. It's the cheapest I'd go for a combo case & PSU.

The next step above that is either an Antec Sonata II (with PSU) or SLK3000B with Fortron FSP PSU (about $50 + 50)
 
I think Fry's had one advertised today from Antec.. comes with a 350w power supply. But that's a little under what I'd use for a dual-core machine. But I think it's 30 dollars so maybe another 50 dollar psu would be OK. I know Fry's sometimes has Ultra PSUs on sale for a bargain, but the only problem is that I wouldnt trust it as well as, say, FSP or OCZ.
 
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