so what is a good cpu suggestion?
How much do you have to spend on a CPU and a Motherboard?
Also, do you want to run Vista or Xp on it?
And you will need a video card to go with a new mother board, unless you buy one with a video card built into the board. But the graphics on built in video cards suck.
And you will need some ram to go with the motherboard. So I would figure you would need at least $400 to build a decent system. And that is not including the case, monitor, cd/dvd drive or anything else, Just the motherboard, video card, CPU and ram.
But if you want a basic system you could probably get by with $400 to build the entire system with everything.
But you would be out of the Dual core Intel chips and using AMD AM2 chips. But it would still be a good system, just not the fastest.