Need to upgrade old system...help needed..

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sumik

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Hey there, I need a lil help to upgrade my cusins comp.he's in europe and prices there are ridiculous, so I gotta get him something here, he's just too young to afford an upgrade now. he's runnin on :
AMD Athlon 25000+ 1,84 GHz
Palit GeForce 7600 GS
2 GB RAM
So u can see it's a lil "old". I'm on tight budget so maybe $400-500 if it's possible. Just cpu, vga and mobo, ram i can get on craigslist as there's tons of it. It's for a 19yr old kid so graphics are important but no SLI, I can save on mobo with no SLI enabled. I'm a laptop person myself and I don't follow pc parts that much so I need lil help here.
If we can use those stores for parts and prices I would b thankfull as I'm in Canada.
http://www.newegg.ca/
http://www.ncix.com/
http://www.liata.com/
 
for $463.34 i have brought up the following:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131178

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115206

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500062

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145201 x2

The motherboard will allow him to upgrade in the future, with RAM slots, many SATA slots and better processors available that are supported on the board.

The processor is good for easily surfing the net, word processing etc, gaming and video and picture editing, so it is good for pretty much any need.

The video card fits the same description as the processor, more than enough for any game or video software and can display in HD if he wants to hook it up to a HD monitor or TV.

Finally the RAM, get 2 of the ones shown so he has 4GB. that is fine for any game or other application on full or near full settings and quick speeds. If you want to put a little extra in for another $70 you can put him up to 8 GB of RAM or get a slightly better processor. You will notice more with the RAM id have thought because you can overclock the CPU to the same as one costing more.

It is a solid pretty much future proof build with tried and tested parts. However if you have a look around for similar parts elsewhere you may find better prices for the same build or you could even look at pre-built systems, you can get good deals on them and you wont have to worry about matching parts and stuff
 
scout said:
motherboard: Msi k9a2 790x for $110
http://www.newegg.ca/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16813130172

processor: Amd phenom 8650 2.3ghz x 3 for $120
http://www.newegg.ca/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16819103253

graphics: Sapphire radeon hd 4830 for $120
http://www.newegg.ca/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16814102803

ram: G.skill 4gb (2 x 2gb) for $50
http://www.newegg.ca/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16820231207

power supply: Cooler master extreme 500w for $55
Click to expand...

+1 nice budget build
 
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