Suggestions for new system

[Graver]

My ASUS motherboard fried itself and so I need to rebuild. It's been 3 years since I did that system so I'm kinda out of the loop and could use your expertise. I need a new mobo, chip and ram at a reasonable price 'cause EVERYTHING at my house is breaking right now! I already have a GeForce 4 Ti4200. The most intensive tasks I use the machine for are photo editing and transferring songs to my iPod. I am a light PC gamer since I've discovered the joy of playing console games from the big velvet sofa.

So whaddya think?

 

[ts3433]

What processor and RAM were in that mobo? If that stuff isn't fried and it worked fine for you then you could just get a new board since you're not doing stuff that's too demanding.

 

[GullyFoyle]

A cheap Athlon system should meet your needs.

An Nforce2 Motherboard (an Abit NF7-S is $85 at Newegg (free ship))
An Athlon 2000+ to 2800+ (a Barton Mobile 2500+ is $88 at Newegg (free ship))
And 512MB of some cheap PC3200 RAM (2x256 is $70 After rebate from Kingston (free ship) Link in Hot Deals forum)

Total: $243.00

 

[yadda]

Graver What's wrong with Anand's guides???

Anand guides

Y

 

[Graver]

Originally posted by: yadda
Graver What's wrong with Anand's guides???

Y

Nothing. Being the slackass that I have been the past year or so, I was able to catch up on quite a lot of what's ok. But it never hurts to ask people. These are the people taking those guides, building those systems and experiencing the pros and cons of them on a daily basis. Also, considering I only have internet access from work right now and only when I'm not friggin' busy, asking is a time saver.

Do those answers satisfy you?! Geez.

 

[Graver]

Originally posted by: DanDeighan
A cheap Athlon system should meet your needs.

An Nforce2 Motherboard (an Abit NF7-S is $85 at Newegg (free ship))
An Athlon 2000+ to 2800+ (a Barton Mobile 2500+ is $88 at Newegg (free ship))
And 512MB of some cheap PC3200 RAM (2x256 is $70 After rebate from Kingston (free ship) Link in Hot Deals forum)

Total: $243.00

Thank you Dan. That looks most reasonable! And less than I imagined as well.