This set-up

[UriA702]

What do you guys think of this hardware. It is a build for a customer, a budget system and i am wondering what you guys think of this motherboard and processor? keep in mind I am trying to keep things as inexpensive as possible.

ASUS P5VD2-VM SE LGA 775 VIA P4M900 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211162

Intel Celeron 440 Conroe-L 2.0GHz 512KB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116038

Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136075

A-DATA Value Series 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211162

LG Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 10X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache IDE 18X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136127

COOLER MASTER Elite RC-330-KKR1 Black SECC ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 350W Power Supply - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119118

ASUS EAX1550/TD/256M Radeon X1550 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
Supporting Hypermemory up to 1GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121059

Subtotal: $311.93

The customer is looking for a build thats not such a "staggering economic investment." She is really looking to purchase one of those $499 dell machines and believes custom built pc's with industry standard parts is inferior to dell or hp's lol.
This build should run pretty well, I dont think itll be running vista - the celeron probably wouldn't run well on vista, so most likely XP. That is pretty much the most I can spend on hardware considering xp will run $100 and my profit margine will be very very low - I know this doesn't seem like much - however she does run a office with about 10 pc's and if shes impressed with the machine which im assuming she will be with 2 gigs of ram and a 160 gig sata drive, she will upgrade her systems through me as opposed to dell.

Any suggestions or recommendations would be appreciated, I tried to explain one gig would work fine on xp theres no need for two, However being that 2 is pretty much the industry standard right now, im gonna go with two, leaves room to upgrade to vista later.

 

[daisymtc]

Will it be better to use onboard graphic, than change CPU to E2140 and MB to MSI G31M-F? Then you can OC a bit for her, also you can tell her you use the latest chipset, such that you give her a better impression... But anyway, your orginal set up is looks fine to me with that sort of budget.

 

[UriA702]

I'm hesitant to use the onboard graphics - she uses skype for video conference calls and i wouldn't want the photos to be choppy at all, besides for that its business apps, I have never had anything but problems with onboard graphics - which is why I will always spend the extra $$ for the pci-e card, plus I've used that asus card on quite a few systems now and have found it to be an extremely well performing gpu. for the money it doesnt get much better.

I'm sorry I posted the wrong processor, I am updating it right now. I was thinking about maybe going with one of the lower clocked athlon x2's what do you guys think?

 

[oscaryu1]

Your motherboard is your memory??

 

[Teckademic]

I still don't think you need the spend the money on a graphics card. Could use it on better stuff.

 

[daisymtc]

I'm hesitant to use the onboard graphics - she uses skype for video conference calls and i wouldn't want the photos to be choppy at all, besides for that its business apps, I have never had anything but problems with onboard graphics - which is why I will always spend the extra $$ for the pci-e card, plus I've used that asus card on quite a few systems now and have found it to be an extremely well performing gpu. for the money it doesnt get much better.

I'm sorry I posted the wrong processor, I am updating it right now. I was thinking about maybe going with one of the lower clocked athlon x2's what do you guys think?

The cheapest AMD dual core cost $70 at newegg. your profit will gone

 

[oscaryu1]

and if shes impressed with the machine which im assuming she will be with 2 gigs of ram and a 160 gig sata drive, she will upgrade her systems through me as opposed to dell.

Yeah, she'll look over with big eyes at the 2GB RAM, the X1550, and the hard drive. Then she sees the Celeron...