Budget PC, any changes needed?

gamerman4 · 01-15-2006, 05:57 AM

I'm building my cousin a PC with a $300.
Here is what I came up with:

Case: Xoxide Bio-X2 Case $39.99

Motherboard: ABIT NF8-V2 Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb $70
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127228

CPU: AMD Sempron 64 3000+ Palermo Skt: 754 $86
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819104241

RAM: OCZ Value Series 512MB $38.89
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227037

PSU: LOGISYS Computer PS550ABK ATX12V 550Watts $20
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817170010

Sub-Total: $254.88 +~30
Total: $287.51

HDD (40GB) and Graphics Card (FX-5500) are gonna be taken from a previous PC, also a CD-Burner and other components. I hope to keep a little money left over for some speakers too but those don't matter since if I cant get her new ones, I can get her some older ones for free.

Anything I should change to get better performance out of the money?

StrangleHold · 01-15-2006, 07:01 AM

I would kick out a little more green stuff if your going 64 bit socket 754 and get a Athlon 64, clawhammer,has 1mb of L2 cache
But you can get good deals on a 754 now, their going out soon!

This ones a good deal
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...049&CatId=1181

gamerman4 · 01-15-2006, 07:19 AM

Well, $300 is all shes gonna give me to build this so I cant go over that. I tried fitting the A64 skt754 but it didnt work out with everything unless I can find a mobo thats is much cheaper but I'd like it to astill have the nforce chipset.

**Praetor** · 01-21-2006, 03:45 PM

Whats the machine for?

01-15-2006, 05:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
gamerman4 Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Arkansas Age: 18 Posts: 1,310	Budget PC, any changes needed? I'm building my cousin a PC with a $300. Here is what I came up with: Case: Xoxide Bio-X2 Case $39.99 Motherboard: ABIT NF8-V2 Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb $70 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127228 CPU: AMD Sempron 64 3000+ Palermo Skt: 754 $86 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819104241 RAM: OCZ Value Series 512MB $38.89 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227037 PSU: LOGISYS Computer PS550ABK ATX12V 550Watts $20 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817170010 Sub-Total: $254.88 +~30 Total: $287.51 HDD (40GB) and Graphics Card (FX-5500) are gonna be taken from a previous PC, also a CD-Burner and other components. I hope to keep a little money left over for some speakers too but those don't matter since if I cant get her new ones, I can get her some older ones for free. Anything I should change to get better performance out of the money? __________________ NZXT Nemesis Elite Black Intel Q6600 @ 3.20 Ghz COOLER MASTER RL-EUL-GBU1-GP Watercooling Gigabyte DS3R P965 HDDs: 2 x 80GB 1 x 250GB 1 x 500GB 1x 750GB 2 x 1GB Patriot Extreme Perf. DDR2 nVidia 8800GT 512MB Antec Smartpower 2.0 400 Watt

01-15-2006, 07:01 AM	#2 (permalink)
StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In a realm of unknown Wonders Posts: 7,504	I would kick out a little more green stuff if your going 64 bit socket 754 and get a Athlon 64, clawhammer,has 1mb of L2 cache But you can get good deals on a 754 now, their going out soon! This ones a good deal http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...049&CatId=1181 __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600-3.3ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066-944mhz. 4gbs. PNY 8800GT/VD964 Cooler W/D Sata 3.0 500gb RE2 Humans are curious creatures and by nature insane. Lock us all in a room together and within hours we're dividing into groups, creating Gods and plotting on how to kill one another. Last edited by StrangleHold; 01-15-2006 at 07:06 AM.

01-15-2006, 07:19 AM	#3 (permalink)
gamerman4 Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Arkansas Age: 18 Posts: 1,310	Well, $300 is all shes gonna give me to build this so I cant go over that. I tried fitting the A64 skt754 but it didnt work out with everything unless I can find a mobo thats is much cheaper but I'd like it to astill have the nforce chipset. __________________ NZXT Nemesis Elite Black Intel Q6600 @ 3.20 Ghz COOLER MASTER RL-EUL-GBU1-GP Watercooling Gigabyte DS3R P965 HDDs: 2 x 80GB 1 x 250GB 1 x 500GB 1x 750GB 2 x 1GB Patriot Extreme Perf. DDR2 nVidia 8800GT 512MB Antec Smartpower 2.0 400 Watt

01-21-2006, 03:45 PM	#4 (permalink)
Praetor Administrator Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 25 Posts: 19,954	Whats the machine for? __________________ ASUS P5K Premium WiFi-AP, Q6600@3.7 / ASUS P5ND, E6400@3.8 4GB OCz Platinum XTC 8500 / 4GB CorsairXMS2 6400 5x500GB Seagate 7200.10 / 2x500 Seagate 7200.10 OCz 8800GTX 768MB @ 630/800 / 2x Galaxy 8800GT SLI

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