System building dilema.

[FishTankX]

Okay, my moms friend's uncle asked him to build his son a computer for 500$. With monitor. (Not hard in China, seeing you can get 40$ i810ET motherboards over here).

I was origonally set on using the Nforce platform. But something came up.

My friend offered me a case, Intel i850 (S423) motherboard, 128MB of RAM, and a Pentium4 williamette 1.5GHZ for 125$.

For that price, it's *extremley* hard to pass up. What do you all think about this?

 

[Pilsnerpete]

If prices are high for rdram over there like they are here, I wouldn't do it. 128mb is enough for winders98se. You'll need an upgrade as soon as you build it! Not to mention it's got a serious problem...Willamette.

 

[FishTankX]

Well at this point the only consideration for this system is really basic wordprocessing and stuff.

But I'm under the impression that even if I shell out the extra cash for an extra 128MB of RDRAM (Which is about 50$) it'lll still ring in at around 175$.

I've used XP with 128MB of memory before, and as long as you dnt keep too many rograms open at once, it's not too bad.

 

[thorin]

128 isn't really enough for XP, even on a low end system for your mother's friend's roommate's cousin's live in boyfriend's father's aunt's neighbour's pet fish

Thorin