Decent, but cheap PC help

sup2jzgte

sup2jzgte

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Hey can you guys do me a huge favor? I'm looking to build a VERY cheap but decent PC. All I want to do is watch DVD's from it......it is going to be hooked up to a 32" HD TV, play a few games, nothing special the highest end game requires 800mhz bus speed and surf the net. I already have a 600 watt PSU, HD, Optical drives and case, so I dont need those.

The reason why I'm looking to get off as cheap as I can is because this is going to be put into a garage......................so god only knows what might happen to it :).

Any help would be great
 
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For what you are going to use this for, I think you would be better off buying a seperate DVD player and an xbox. Why spend 4 or 5 hundred on something that you really have no need for.
 
paratwa said:
For what you are going to use this for, I think you would be better off buying a seperate DVD player and an xbox. Why spend 4 or 5 hundred on something that you really have no need for.
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:confused: How do you get 400-500 for a Motherboard, Ram, Processor and a decent video card? I cant surf the web with an Xbox, thing is I also need this to fill customer orders and order parts as well.
 
paratwa said:
For what you are going to use this for, I think you would be better off buying a seperate DVD player and an xbox. Why spend 4 or 5 hundred on something that you really have no need for.
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I doubt it'll be 4-5 hundred if he already has the psu, case, hdd, and optical drives..

Also, is the case/psu atx? (I'm assuming so...but you never know...)

Assuming its atx...I'll put together a build
 
Do you want/prefer dual cores? The processor I'm looking at with dual cores is $75, and the single core is $43 (both operating at 1.6Ghz)....the dual core also has more L2 cache...you decide if its worth it or not (for your uses)
 
sup2jzgte said:
HD's are both IDE and Sata, Optical drives are IDE and I have some PC3200 ram, but I'm probably going to need something different for the new PC.
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how much ram do you want? 512? (1 gig should prob. be enough with all you're doing with it....)

Do you have an OS?
 
^no prob. but liek I said you might want to let someone check over it first....(mostly the micro atx mobo in an atx case)
 
vonfeldt7 said:
^no prob. but liek I said you might want to let someone check over it first....(mostly the micro atx mobo in an atx case)
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Yeah, but I'm pretty sure it will fit because is tons of stand off's all over the case. How do you think a eVGA e-GeForce 7100 GS 256MB PCI-E will work for movies?
 
sup2jzgte said:
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure it will fit because is tons of stand off's all over the case. How do you think a eVGA e-GeForce 7100 GS 256MB PCI-E will work for movies?
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Fine...but even the integrated video should work if all you're doing is watching movies...I wouldnt even put money into a video card.
 
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