Building a PC that is on a tiny budget

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I am building a PC for a business, and it has to cost less than $570 w/o OS. Can someone show me an AMD product, I figure AMD's "Pentium 4 Buster" will perform better than a P4 or PD. I just need you to slap together a PC for me.

Much appreciated, I have no idea about AMD stuff:rolleyes:
 
my build without the GPU and OS in my sig comes to around your budget with a 30 buck gpu

its an excellent PC
 
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joeswm8 said:
my build without the GPU and OS in my sig comes to around your budget with a 30 buck gpu

its an excellent PC
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what percent of the cost should the processor be? i see 30%-50% usually depending on the type of computer (was going to quote preator, but dont remember the exct quote, and am too lazy to find it) gaming, work, etc. followed by, gpu price? then hdd ithink, is this right, corrections would be appreciated.
 
I would like to find a board with Dual channel memory, onboard video, and DDR2 Memory. It only needs an 80Gb HD, the cost of the PC with XP pro is $700, I might just go buy a cheapo Acer and stick it in that office. But, it seems like everytime I do that there is some type of issue, I think manufactured PC's slow down quicker than built ones. I just cannot put my own faith in AMD, I don't have slightest care for AMD.
 
I think if it is for business no more than 50.. be spent on a GPU and buy a decent processor and ram, a lot of businesses need multiple applications open while browsing the net and have numerous other things up or in use.

LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with 12X DVD-RAM Write Black IDE Model

Antec Solution SLK1650B Black Steel ATX Mini Tower Computer Case 350W

Western Digital Caviar SE WD2000JS 200GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s HD

GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD

ASUS EAX1300/TD/128M Radeon X1300 128MB DDR PCI Express x16

A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+(65W) Windsor 2.0GHz Socket AM2

565.00

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16827106049
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811129150
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822144416
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813128034
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814121551
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820211066
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103729
 
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Well, the only thing they run is Outlook Express and Quickbooks. I am gonna disable Internet Explorer so the secretary works instead of plays.

I need to be a little fast that way I don't get P'd off while I am working on it.
 
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Alright, maybe something to look at would be this setup.

C2D setup
Mobo:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128033
CPU:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115013
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822135106
Optical:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827129007
Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811144076
RAM:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145527 or if you only want 1gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820144176

$571 or $500 if using 1gb Not bad. That mobo has onboard graphics, since I assume you won't be gaming. Thats just something from an Intel point of view. Also, you could save money on the case.
 
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schoning16 said:
Alright, maybe something to look at would be this setup.

C2D setup
Mobo:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128033
CPU:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115013
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822135106
Optical:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827129007
Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811144076
RAM:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145527 or if you only want 1gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820144176

$571 or $500 if using 1gb Not bad. That mobo has onboard graphics, since I assume you won't be gaming. Thats just something from an Intel point of view. Also, you could save money on the case.
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Hmm, The Hard Drive is kinda small, and I don't think you'll need a flashy case like that. Costs quite a lot for a small business.
 
schoning16 said:
Alright, maybe something to look at would be this setup.

C2D setup
Mobo:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128033
CPU:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115013
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822135106
Optical:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827129007
Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811144076
RAM:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145527 or if you only want 1gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820144176

$571 or $500 if using 1gb Not bad. That mobo has onboard graphics, since I assume you won't be gaming. Thats just something from an Intel point of view. Also, you could save money on the case.
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I think you can use a smaller case as you chose a m-ATX M/B
Athenatech A3603BB.400 Black Steel MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case ATX 2.01v 400W Power Supply - Retail
 
 
GCR said:
Case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811129012
CPU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103774
MB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131143
RAM - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820144151
HDD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822136003
CD/DVD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16827151141

$486.94 excluding shipping and $30 rebate.

You can always downgrade the HDD but the Optical drive was selected because it's rather short.:)
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I'm not sure if you knew this, but the Mobo is a micro ATX. I'm not sure if it will affect anything, I'm just saying. You might want more space to work with.

daisymtc said:
I think at the moment the C2D set up is better than the AMD athlon 64 x 2 set up.
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the only reason I chose AMD, is because he asked us to include AMD. I was thinking of making a suggestion, but decided not to.
 
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That biz is wanting to run GPS, but not upgrade their office PC's. They are wanting to run real-time GPS on an old Celeron 400Mhz with 64Mb of RAM, jeez, I told them they need a PC that will run programs like that first.

Much appreciated
 
INTELCRAZY said:
That biz is wanting to run GPS, but not upgrade their office PC's. They are wanting to run real-time GPS on an old Celeron 400Mhz with 64Mb of RAM, jeez, I told them they need a PC that will run programs like that first.

Much appreciated
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Oh, that means you need a good graphic card. Here is my list:

M/B: GIGABYTE GA-M61VME-S2 Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 / nForce 400 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+(65W) Windsor 2.0GHz Socket AM2 Processor Model ADO3800CSBOX - Retail
RAM: G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model F2-4200PHU2-2GBNT - Retail \
HDD:Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3250620AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
GPU: EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
DVDRW: LITE-ON 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black IDE Model LH-18A1P-185 - OEM
case: Rosewill R6422-P BK Black SGCC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
PSU: XClio 450BL ATX 450W Power Supply - Retail
Total: $568.93 exclude shipping
 
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Screw it guys, sorry I troubled you for nothing they don't want to upgrade but they want to try to run GPS:rolleyes:. I might be able to lease them a PC, but that is the most I can do for them. They expect to buy a POS off the street(Gateway) and make it run like the C2D E4300, 1Gb of RAM and 80Gb SATA 3Gb/s HD I had picked out. They will most likely learn from this mistake.

Appreciate it, look for my next thread about computers I am gonna build to lease a few people and biz's
 
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