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I'm researching building a new computer for my Father. He currently has a very old computer. I believe, off the top of my head, it's a 2 or 3 GHz P4 with like 1GB of ram or something. The thing struggles to load word and Itunes. That said, on to the questions!
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Primary User: Internet usage (Youtube, occasional hulu), Itunes, Very light gaming (He plays Majong on some antiquated program).
Occasional: Light gaming whenever my brother or myself steals the computer for a LAN party (Say, L4D2 with settings on low or medium or WoW with low settings).
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
Looking at $500 including OS. Possibly $600 if it will net me a noticeable performance increase in games (I'd be contributing the extra $100 since he wont play games on the computer). Shipping and taxes don't count towards either of these totals, but obviously, free shipping is preferred.
3) Where do you live?
Rome, NY. Pretty much everything will be ordered from NewEgg. House has central air conditioning.
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
OS (Win7 64bit), Case, PSU, Motherboard, CPU, RAM (4GB preferred), Single drive CD/DVD burner, HDD (Medium capacity, have home server set up for storage), Video card (If you can cram one in the budget, if it'd net me a significant increase in performance I will throw $100 in for a total of $600 to upgrade/get a video card.)
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
Reusing Monitor, keyboard, mouse.
6) Will you be overclocking?
No, I don't want to deal with trying to phone troubleshoot possible OC issues once he has the computer.
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
He currently has a 19" "Flat" (As in not fishbowl) screen CRT. We have a 21" Widescreen LCD laying around somewhere too so that is also a possibility. No plans that I know of to upgrade past that.
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
February (This month) or March time frame. Not against buying fast for deals.
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
100/1000 Mbit Ethernet is required, current computer only has 10/100 and it's a giant pain to move stuff around my network as such
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? 32bit or 64bit?
I do not already own an OS. As stated above, Win7 64bit Home Prem is to be included in budget.
My attempt at something int he price range is (hopefully) shown below at this link:
https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/MySavedWishDetail.aspx?ID=17058447
It does not include a case because at the time of making the wish list I was thinking about gutting his case, but have since decided not to. It is also about $80 over the $500 budget, but includes a video card so is acceptable (as I said, I'll pay the extra $100 or so if it's worth it, which I think it is!). Also, this shows an AMD build, I'm not partial to AMD, but it seemed at the time of making this that AMD had the cheeper low end parts out, I'm not sure how i5 and i3 have changed this situation.
Thank you in advance for your help!
- Justin
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Primary User: Internet usage (Youtube, occasional hulu), Itunes, Very light gaming (He plays Majong on some antiquated program).
Occasional: Light gaming whenever my brother or myself steals the computer for a LAN party (Say, L4D2 with settings on low or medium or WoW with low settings).
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
Looking at $500 including OS. Possibly $600 if it will net me a noticeable performance increase in games (I'd be contributing the extra $100 since he wont play games on the computer). Shipping and taxes don't count towards either of these totals, but obviously, free shipping is preferred.
3) Where do you live?
Rome, NY. Pretty much everything will be ordered from NewEgg. House has central air conditioning.
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
OS (Win7 64bit), Case, PSU, Motherboard, CPU, RAM (4GB preferred), Single drive CD/DVD burner, HDD (Medium capacity, have home server set up for storage), Video card (If you can cram one in the budget, if it'd net me a significant increase in performance I will throw $100 in for a total of $600 to upgrade/get a video card.)
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
Reusing Monitor, keyboard, mouse.
6) Will you be overclocking?
No, I don't want to deal with trying to phone troubleshoot possible OC issues once he has the computer.
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
He currently has a 19" "Flat" (As in not fishbowl) screen CRT. We have a 21" Widescreen LCD laying around somewhere too so that is also a possibility. No plans that I know of to upgrade past that.
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
February (This month) or March time frame. Not against buying fast for deals.
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
100/1000 Mbit Ethernet is required, current computer only has 10/100 and it's a giant pain to move stuff around my network as such
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? 32bit or 64bit?
I do not already own an OS. As stated above, Win7 64bit Home Prem is to be included in budget.
My attempt at something int he price range is (hopefully) shown below at this link:
https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/MySavedWishDetail.aspx?ID=17058447
It does not include a case because at the time of making the wish list I was thinking about gutting his case, but have since decided not to. It is also about $80 over the $500 budget, but includes a video card so is acceptable (as I said, I'll pay the extra $100 or so if it's worth it, which I think it is!). Also, this shows an AMD build, I'm not partial to AMD, but it seemed at the time of making this that AMD had the cheeper low end parts out, I'm not sure how i5 and i3 have changed this situation.
Thank you in advance for your help!
- Justin
