Building a non gaming PC.

[qbert3]

So my parents wanna get a PC so they can browse the net and so on. At most they would be working with excel documents and just general web browsing. I've only built PCs for gaming so this is kind of weird for me. Im not even sure where to look. I dont want them to go dell or anything like that. I know they probably have decent deals but i just think that I might be able to put something together for less. I already have a case to put the stuff in and a power supply. All I need help with is MOBO/CPU. RAM I can just get some cheap value RAM or whatever.

 

[meatycheesyboy]

I would suggest:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813138266
Biostar 6100 M7 for $60

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819104249
Sempron 64 2600+ for $65

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820141164
512 PQI Power series for $34

Total cost just under $160 and its a pretty competent system, and incidentally its almost the same as my system.

 

[qbert3]

hey thanks! i put a lil nice setup together.. ill show my parents and hopefully they wont go with dell...god i hate oem pcs..

my friend the other day had a PSU die on him. took him 6+hrs to get this nice PSU he got off of newegg into his dell case. he had to do some ghetto modding.

 

[noobtech]

dell computer use proprietary power supplies and motherboards... You can however, buy dell type psu's but are expensive. haha... that's funny, your friend must have cut the case because they are kinda upside down Good job... I mean, it works.. it just doesn't mount up correctly... so you have to ghetto rig it.