budget build. should i add anything or am i missing anything?

[MattN]

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oops and i forgot heres the HD
Western Digital 320GB Scorpio Blue SATAII 5400RPM 2.5IN 8MB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD3200BEVT
this is the build i want to do. i know i dont have any cd/dvd drives ill boot off via usb or get a old dvd drive. well anyway im kinda a noob. am i missing anything? just curious. thanks -matt

 

[claptonman]

What are you using this for? A couple of things:

The motherboard and CPU are outdated. Not saying they will be slow or bad or anything, its just that the socket 775 is dead and they won't be making anything new for it. Just something to think about.

The power supply is junk, even for a budget build like this.

Where are you buying this from?

 

[MattN]

What are you using this for? A couple of things:

The motherboard and CPU are outdated. Not saying they will be slow or bad or anything, its just that the socket 775 is dead and they won't be making anything new for it. Just something to think about.

The power supply is junk, even for a budget build like this.

Where are you buying this from?

just for messing around i want to build a cheap computer. even this is better then my older computer i just want a motherboard with a pci express slot because im stuck with 8x agp this isnt a gaming build or anything. im getting these parts on amazon. if u could or some one compose me a build list with ok parts for about 300 to about 350 that would awesome. because im a noob haha.

 

[Mishkin]

I would change out the bulk of your build, because you can do considerably better for the same amount of money and even cheaper. Here's a list of components for a build I made up a few days ago, from Newegg. It should give you a rough idea of what you can get, and use it as a base. In my opinion the best upgrade you could achieve if you wanted to spend just a little more (~$10-25) would be to go with a slightly better Llano. This would give you a slightly more powerful CPU and GPU. Depending on your setup and what you do regarding your HDD, you could go all the way up to a nice quad-core Llano. Just something to think about.

Motherboard - ASRock A55M-HVS FM1 (Hudson D2) Micro ATX (59)

CPU - AMD A4-3300 Llano 2.5GHz Radeon HD 6410D (65)

Memory - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) (22)

HDD - Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB (90)

Optical - LG 22X Super-Multi DVD Burner Black (16)

PSU - Antec EarthWatts Green EA-380D 380W (45)

Case - HEC 6K28BB8F Black MicroATX Mini Tower (35)

The total of this list comes out to $322 before combo deals, MIRs, and shipping. You can cut more money off if you can find a cheaper HDD somewhere online, and/or a smaller one. The case also is something that is very dependent on the person.

 

[MattN]

I would change out the bulk of your build, because you can do considerably better for the same amount of money and even cheaper. Here's a list of components for a build I made up a few days ago, from Newegg. It should give you a rough idea of what you can get, and use it as a base. In my opinion the best upgrade you could achieve if you wanted to spend just a little more (~$10-25) would be to go with a slightly better Llano. This would give you a slightly more powerful CPU and GPU. Depending on your setup and what you do regarding your HDD, you could go all the way up to a nice quad-core Llano. Just something to think about.

Motherboard - ASRock A55M-HVS FM1 (Hudson D2) Micro ATX (59)

CPU - AMD A4-3300 Llano 2.5GHz Radeon HD 6410D (65)

Memory - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) (22)

HDD - Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB (90)

Optical - LG 22X Super-Multi DVD Burner Black (16)

PSU - Antec EarthWatts Green EA-380D 380W (45)

Case - HEC 6K28BB8F Black MicroATX Mini Tower (35)

The total of this list comes out to $322 before combo deals, MIRs, and shipping. You can cut more money off if you can find a cheaper HDD somewhere online, and/or a smaller one. The case also is something that is very dependent on the person.

this sounds like a nice cheap build what type of cpu is that haha sorry for being a noob lol.

 

[Mishkin]

this sounds like a nice cheap build what type of cpu is that haha sorry for being a noob lol.

It's an AMD APU, the one I listed is a dual-core. The APUs have integrated graphics directly on the cpu, and are by far the best integrated graphics you can get. The integrated graphics of the A4-3300 (the cpu I listed) are the lowest level graphics of the APUs, but still very good compared to other integrated graphics. I don't know offhand how it would compare to other, more regular integrated graphics, but I am assuming it would more than hold its own vs anything. Probably comparable to the current Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics.

If you're curious about the specs/models/prices of the APUs, just go to Newegg and go to the FM1 socket cpus.