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wubbie412

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alrighty, my little brother (he's 6yrs old) complained!!! of his lag!! a 6yrs old boy!! omg.. wth? i was playing w/ freaking legos at his age.. yet this kid is complaining of lags in his little starwars game... ugh..

well heres a problem.. his birthday is coming up and i dont want to spend more than $500 for his birthday present.
i want to keep him happy (he's 12yrs younger than i am, so theres this level of bonding that i cant really describe, because hes so much younger than i am, i want to do everything for him..)

right now in his room, he has a Dell with integrated graphics w/ gay dell motherboard. originally i was going to replace vid card, but i called Dell and they dont have any available upgrades for any of their line of dimension desktops - dell seriously sucks... my dad bought that for him less than a yr ago... Dell blows.

anyways, enough dell bashing...
what can i do with $500?
i already have the case and the monitor... thats about it.
whats the best possible way to build a computer w/ such low budget?
help me guys... plz. his birthday is march 6. i have a good month.. i think i should start now though.
 
yr bros young so i wouldnt expect him to care that much about bein maxed out and ocing ;)
7600GT - evga $110
1gb of ram - recommend gskill $74-$100
120gb hd - Seagate $55
2.1 Speakers - $20-$50
dvd/cd burner - $30


im not really good with mobos and cpus so ill let som1 else handle that
of course just let him use onboard.

if ur planning on using the dell case i would suggest throwing an extra $50 to get him a cool looking case ;)

i kno how u feel, i hav a lil cousin and he loves computer games, you bro complains about lag alrdy lol, my cousin is on dial up i feal so bad lol
i wish i had the money to buy him a computer.
hope ur bro loves his new comp.
 
xnikx has given you some good options for the guts of the computer. As for the MB and CPU, I'd recommend checking newegg or tigerdirect or maybe even Frys and search for a CPU/MB combo for a sale price. You should be able to get him an E6300 plus any of several MBs for a combo sale. I have done this at Frys and gotten an E6600 plus an ECS P965T-A MB for about $100 less than the CPU alone would cost. A little searching could benefit you and your brother. :)
 
Dude Im Getting A.POS! lol

But seriously i built my computer minus a sound card with less than $500

But lets see if we can get a little more for the money here

My recommendations:

Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128321


Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146559

Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103735

Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822145088

PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817153023

Vid Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130062

And The Total Would Come To
$496.95


And I have to say this is one hell of a system build(atleast in my opinion) For $500...Hope I helped =)
 
I would highly recommend the Intel Core 2 Duo E6300...its 190ish but totally worth every penny. You can get a decent motherboard for it for about 70 dollars. I also recommend the EVGA 7600gt. Everything else can just be standard and it would still be a beast of a system for the price.

Hope this helps.
 
Ok so he is complaining of lag in games....well then he needs a frickin GPU in that Dell, what model is his current PC? I would just buy a GPU (depends if his mobo is AGP or PCIe) and then may be by him a cool mouse like one of those razordiamondbacks that lights up, or if you feel really nice buy him a GPU and a nicer monitor....$200 widescreen LCD would be my choice for a 6yr old.......just because dell doesn't have any upgrades doesn't mean you can't by a new graphics card from Newegg....it would be cheaper that way also.
 
ya but its hard to upgrade dells even if u buy from newegg
 
what dell are you rebuilding... if its based on BTX then good luck.

my brother asked me about video card options for an E310, I had to tell him he had no pci-E or AGP slot.
 
Hopefully you aren't planning on using the Dell case as your main case. Most of their cases are propreitary and will only fit the motherboard designed to go with that case. You'll need to go shopping for a new case too.
 
I bet he has an AGP slot, also I bet the PC only has 512mb of RAM, double that to 1GB and possibly add a GPU, then throw in a new flashy mouse and if the OP wants a new LCD.....I think the 6 year old will be very happy.
 
na.. i bought a nzxt apollo case for him. thanks guys, for all ur help n recommendations. it sure helped alot.
 
u may want to buy a fan for the hd bay

hope ur bro loves his comp, its actually a very good comp especially for $500 and for a 6 yr old
let us kno if u need any more help, btw i dont think ne1 mention a cd drive. just buy a max $30 cddrive.
 
Here's another build as well.

http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=5561587

Subtotal of $544 plus shipping with $35 MIR making it a subtotal of $509 plus shipping.

Your brother does not need a dual core cpu since he's basically using it for gaming and not major multitasking.

With the DFI mb and 3700+...you can overclock the crap out of it. :D

If you're able to sell his Dell desktop...then there goes more cash for keyboard/mouse. And I forgot to add a OS to it as well.
 
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