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Any help with new basic build

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moeamaya

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Ive been lurking here for about 6 months and I now want to kick my own as for buying a Dell a couple of months ago. Well tonite my friend seems to believe that I am some sort of expert at computers. So he wants me to order parts tomorrow for his new computer, however I only have a $500 limit. The things he will be reusing are a monitor, keyboard, and speakers. Other than that this is what I came up with:

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Antec Solution Series with 300w PS $61 accupc
Biostar nForce2 400 Motherboard "M7NCD" $53 newegg
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 266FSB -Retail $57 newegg
Corsair XMS 256MB DDR400 PC-3200 $62 newegg
Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm IDE Hard Drive $53 newegg
ASUS GeForce fx5200 128mb Video Card $52 accupc
Lite-On Combo Drive $47 newegg
Microsoft Black Mouse $18 newegg
IBM Black Keyboard $0 home
Altec Lansing Speakers $0 home
Windows XP SP1a OEM $82 glob2000

TOTAL $485

I do have to add though that he absolutely fell in love with Battlefield1942 when he played on my computer all weekend but I'm not sure how well this computer can handle that memory hog. I don't see anyway I can afford to put 512mb ram in there, so i put a pretty good stick high rated stick. I dont know how much room I am gonna have for overclocking but let me in on any advice you guys have. Thanks alot:)
 
get an NF7 instead and save some $$ by getting Buffalo Tech Ram (the CAS 2.5 one @ newegg)
 
You've got $15 to the "limit".....spent $12.75 of it VERY WISELY on on an 80GB WD hard drive. HD space and System Memory run neck-and-neck as the first things to require upgrading down the road. Help delay this by maximizing your storage space now. In fact, if he could stand to go $18 over budget, I'd highly recommend jumping to the 120 GB drive. Games, MP3's, videos, etc can eat up 'free' space quickly.

FYI
 
One more "upgrade" recommendation......

If your pal has any inclination to burn DVD's and or watch them on his PC, and extra $50 now to jump up to a DVD burner would be money well spent. AND IF he does want to get into video authoring (copying he precious camcorder collection to DVD, for example), all the more reason to get the biggest HD he can afford now. The only sacrifice is in CDR write speed....but in my mind the benefits far outweight the extra 2 minutes per CD burn time.

Larry
 
Here you go.

MB - ABIT nForce2 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "NF7" - $70.99
CPU - AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton - $80
HDD - Maxtor 60GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive - $71
Video Card - SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON 9600XT Video Card - $151
CDRW/DVD - Lite-On Black 48X24X48X16 Combo Drive - $47
RAM - Buffalo Technology 184 Pin 256MB PC-2700 - $41
CASE/PSU - ANTEC Solution Series 300W Power Supply, Model "SLK2600AMB" - $49

TOTAL = $510(with 256MB) $551(with 512MB)

There you go. Try to get your buddy to up his budget just a little bit and he will have a sweet system.

Hope this helps.
 
thanks alot for your suggestions:

With the new ABIT mobo and BuffaloTech ram: I am still $20 under budget.

Although I could see the positives of a bigger harddrive, I really dont see him filling up 40gb especially since I cant fill up mine. THe DVD+RW/-RW isnt really in the picture since he doesnt have any video editing or massive files to burn. Any other suggests are welcome.

Moe
 
God I would love the computer posted by YoUnAn but no go since I still need to spend $82 on an OS.

right now here's where I am at:
Antec Solution Series with 300w PS $60.50
ABIT NF7 Motherboard nforce2 $67.75
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 266FSB -Retail $57
Buffalo Tech 256MB DDR400 PC-3200 Memory $43
Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm IDE Hard Drive $53.50
ASUS GeForce fx5200 128mb Video Card $52
Lite-On Combo Drive $47
Microsoft Black Mouse $18
Windows XP SP1a OEM 82
 
Yea....I didn't think I could either. But as you get 'into' more toys.....you do. Digital camera = pictures (and at 4 or 5 MP....they add up fast). Ipod => Kazaa = MP3's (and if your a broadband user into music, they can add up fast!). It goes on, but you get the idea.

I'm on a FRESH reformat with only ONE game & very little clutter on my main partition and I'm still using 7GB there. On my D: partition (where I keep ALL my music, backup files, pictures, videos, etc).....I'm using 38 GB. Now that I've got a DVD burner and want to start editting, archiving my home videos......I really wish I had 120 GB to play with rather than 80GB. Yes I could burn all my music to DVD or CD....and my Pictures.....Backups....etc. But I already HAVE done that AS a backup. It is just VERY convenient to have them READILY available on the HD.

And that's what your PC should be.....a convenience ;-)

And this doesn't address that fact that.....much like a stereo amplifier, you don't want to be running much beyond half full/power. Running on a fairly full HD leads to performance degradation, L O O O N G defrags. etc. The price of a 3 Happy Meals seems well worth the extra headroom to me.......but I'm a geek....LOL!
 
Sorry looking around I think this is what I am ordering tomorrow:

Antec Solution Series with 300w PS $60.50
ABIT NF7 Motherboard nforce2 $67.75
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 333FSB -Retail $80
Buffalo Tech 256MB DDR400 PC-3200 Memory $43
Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm IDE Hard Drive $53.50
ASUS GeForce fx5200 128mb Video Card $52
Lite-On Combo Drive $47
KEIO Wheel Optical Mouse $9.50
Windows XP SP1a OEM $82

and this is with shipping TOTAL = $495.25
 
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