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My daughter wants a PC, but will only use it for emails and browsing, maybe a few games later.
Budget is tight, maybe a couple of hundred pounds.............whatever that is in $...........and for the PC only, we will look around for the externals, like mouse, keyboard and monitor, which might be freebies.
She has asked me to look into me building her one.
I have to try and switch off from getting expensive quality components, as I like to play computer intensive games....
All it would be, is a:
Cheap but reliable PSU,
Reasonable CPU (I have only used AMD chips, so no experience with an Intel fired system) + cooler.
Onboard sound and video (or maybe a cheap gfx card, and again I've only used Nvidia cards)
Onboard ethernet as she will be hitching up to BB.
About 512MB memory as I want to run XP on it.
The other bits like hard drive keyboard, mouse, and opticals are not critical, and not worried about makes etc.
Would ebay be a choice for getting bundled items (mobo + cpu) etc, or would it be better to stick to buying new.
I guess it would be a skt939 based system, or even skt A as prices should be cheapish.
So basically a cheap, but reliable system (i.e. no phone calls wailing that her computer has crashed again) so any thoughts/advice is welcome.
Budget is tight, maybe a couple of hundred pounds.............whatever that is in $...........and for the PC only, we will look around for the externals, like mouse, keyboard and monitor, which might be freebies.
She has asked me to look into me building her one.
I have to try and switch off from getting expensive quality components, as I like to play computer intensive games....
All it would be, is a:
Cheap but reliable PSU,
Reasonable CPU (I have only used AMD chips, so no experience with an Intel fired system) + cooler.
Onboard sound and video (or maybe a cheap gfx card, and again I've only used Nvidia cards)
Onboard ethernet as she will be hitching up to BB.
About 512MB memory as I want to run XP on it.
The other bits like hard drive keyboard, mouse, and opticals are not critical, and not worried about makes etc.
Would ebay be a choice for getting bundled items (mobo + cpu) etc, or would it be better to stick to buying new.
I guess it would be a skt939 based system, or even skt A as prices should be cheapish.
So basically a cheap, but reliable system (i.e. no phone calls wailing that her computer has crashed again) so any thoughts/advice is welcome.
