Building a budget computer.....

amolyneaux

amolyneaux

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So I'm building a new computer for my nephew and the budget is $400 - $450 I've been shopping around on newegg and tigerdirect, but if you guys have any builds you'd like to share, I'd appreciate it.
 
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davidandersson

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That'll be hard... I'd advise not to go past a dual core, if that. The motherboard depends on your CPU, but when you go for a low end CPU generally the motherboard will be cheap. For ram I'd go for a low mhz crosair about 1 or 2 GB DDR or DDR2 (porbs DDR because DDR2 is at around 50-100 dollars, depending on how good you want it to be) and an on board graphics card (this depends on what he is going to use it for, if gaming I would advise at least a nVidia Geforce). If it has to include a screen, you can always go for an old fashion way and look for an analog screen, but the small LCD's won't be too expensive.
 
amolyneaux

amolyneaux

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No, I don't need the monitor, just the case and components. I have a 8800 GeForce card in storage somewhere, If I can manage to find that, it would save some cash...
 
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davidandersson

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So yea... If you use your graphics card, get a dual core and the corresponding motherboard. Your hdd won't have to be too big but they are generally cheap anyway. If he's going to do some gaming I would definitely take 2GB DDR2 ram and then you'll be fine...
 
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daisymtc

Active Member
$470, MIR $50 from newegg; I assume you will give your 8800 to him.

AMD Athlon II X2 240
Crucial 2 x 1GB DDR3 1333 CT2KIT12864BA1339
ASRock M3A785GMH/128M
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB
LITE-ON CD/DVD Burner - Bulk Black SATA Model iHAS124-04 - OEM
GMC X-7 Black ABS / SECC steel Gaming ATX Mid Tower
OCZ StealthXStream OCZ500SXS 500W
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders - OEM
 
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