$400 Budget Build Chellange

Jaffasoft

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Hi everyone, instead of showing all the specs I picked I thought it might be better and a bit more fun to give you skilled & experienced in computers the site where I need to purchase from and make a challenge for anyone that wants to show me what system they would buy using my money. I would appreciate that very much as I'm a bit confused after a few days trying to make sense of all the terminology and getting nowhere :confused:.

A mate is located near Brisbane Australia so he can go over and buy all the stuff from the warehouse and he says he will be able to put it together. As you might notice it's all in Australian dollars and prices so it might seem a bit behind in comparison to America. The gamedude.com.au place is pretty well recognizes as about the cheapest place to buy stuff that I have found anyway and from what people tell me so that's the reason I thought buy from their.

I'm a bit confused about what specs can be put with what etc. Money is tight so it's going to be a Medioca system but the best that around $400 to tops of $500 can buy.

I have a Screen, Keyboard, Speakers etc. Just need a Tower. Typically I use the computer to run Adobe Flash & Photoshop and might do some film editing soon, play music, have Yahoo Messenger/MSN/Skype and a few browser windows open at any one time and watch heaps of YouTube. Plus do some burning but will only need one ROM. I can possibly pay for more parts soon so something I can expand on later would be good. i.e. if I have to start with a small amount of RAM then buy some more in a couple of weeks this would be OK.

OK, so the challenge is to make a budget system with $400 - $500 at GameDude.com.au and provide the details and specs in this thread. Then I should be able to look the parts up at gamedude and find them :). I appreciate it thanks in advance. Here is the link www.GameDude.com.au and it needs to be Intel! (i like them).

P.S. Thought I might mention that this is not spam I never spam and I hate crap spam. Since this is my first post in the forum I thought someone might think it was. I never spam, hate spam and kill spam forever! And have no affiliation with GameDude.com what so ever.
 
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AU Australian dolalrs. $1 is the price of $1 euro thing ( english money ) and US is like 10 c more every $1. So that should help you people making your desision. You could save that extra bit you no. So you have a better comp.
 
AU$500 list.
E2160
MSI P31 Neo-F
Western Digital 160 gig 7200rpm SATAII JS
2 x G.SKILL 1gig DDR2 667Mhz (PC2 5400) CL5 Model: F2-5400PHU1-1GBNY
MSI RX2600PRO 256meg DDR2 HDMI / HDCP HDTV Ready Dual DVI TV-Out PCI-E
PIONEER DVR-215D SATA 20x DVD Burner BLACK OEM No Software
X-Sonic 6918-A BLACK/SILVER ATX Case 450watt PSU (I was a bit worry about the PSU come with case as it don't show spec, but with such a low budget, no option)
 
Hi, thanks! I didn't think i got a reply as was not subscribed.

Thanks again for these specs I will look into them next few days and see where i can track them down in Australia.
 
AU Australian dolalrs. $1 is the price of $1 euro thing ( english money ) and US is like 10 c more every $1. So that should help you people making your desision. You could save that extra bit you no. So you have a better comp.

Don't know what you are talking about. UK is not using euro...
 
The U.K. still uses the pound as its currency, and the AUD is nowhere near a 1:1 ratio with the euro. €1 will buy you $1.63642 as of when the markets closed on Friday.
 
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