Budget computer for about $350 possible?

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AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3000BPBOX - Retail $146

pqi TURBO 512MB (2 x 256MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model PQI3200-512DAH - Retail $55.91

MSI K8N Neo4-F Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $85.50

HITACHI Deskstar 7K80 HDS728080PLA380 -0A30356 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $52.00

Subtotal: $339.41 + shipping

I am still missing a case, powersupply, video card, and cd burner. Anyway to build this machine for $350? It'll be used for casual things (e-mail, web, office), minimial gaming and will be used later for a audio studio recording machine. We'll be throwing in a $300+ sound card later on, I figured other then the sound card not much else is needed regarding audio recording.
 
Not for an Athlon64... You could go used parts... And for $350, you'll be looking at something with onboard video for sure.
 
You will not be able to do athlon 64 for around $350. Go with the semprons.
 
how fast are those semprons? will I get decent performance on xp? Doesn't have to be amd, was thinking originally a p4 northwood but couldn't find any p4 northwoods for under like $150. For some reason i was thinking I could get like a p4 northwood 2.6 or 2.8 800fsb for around $100, i was wrong :(

Original plan was a pentium 4 northwood 2.8 800fsb on an intel 865, but I believe it will put me over the budget.

Maybe I should just buy one of those dell dimension 2400s for 300bucks?
 
JAW said:
how fast are those semprons? will I get decent performance on xp? Doesn't have to be amd, was thinking originally a p4 northwood but couldn't find any p4 northwoods for under like $150. For some reason i was thinking I could get like a p4 northwood 2.6 or 2.8 800fsb for around $100, i was wrong :(

Original plan was a pentium 4 northwood 2.8 800fsb on an intel 865, but I believe it will put me over the budget.

Maybe I should just buy one of those dell dimension 2400s for 300bucks?
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NO Dell gives you the cheapest stuff they can find and stick it in a neat little black box and charge 300 bucks and a really bad video card too


btw is this for a little brother or something? becasue you have a pretty decent Computer in your sig there
 
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