Cheapest Office PC Build

[wolf2009]

a new PC may soon be needed at the place I work.

since it will be doing office work mostly what can I make cheaply by using parts from previous PC.

Previous PC is a Dell Gx280 with Pentium 4 processor.

I'm thinking an AMD build is warranted, just out of notion to support AMD for thinking of us customers like they do not change sockets while bringing new CPU's to the market.

So basically i need a processor , motherboard and a case. Maybe can use parts from older PC. So what am I looking at ?

 

[Vague]

If you don't mind sticking with Intel you can probably reuse the p4 from the Dell and put it into a Satellite barebones case. You'll probably need to get some more memory because the Dell probably takes DDR, luckily DDR2 is extremely cheap.

 

[Dangman]

Just buy a new Dell. Hit up www.gotapex.com for the occasional Dell deals.

 

[lowteckh]

Or drop by Dell outlet.

C2D Inspiron 530 at $299, maybe lower. Stock is constantly changing, not my problem if things are different one second after another.
http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnline...line/en/InventorySearch?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh

 

[wolf2009]

nah I'll like to build it myself, it will save him some cost.

 

[Dangman]

nah I'll like to build it myself, it will save him some cost.

It probably won't. You'll need a new PSU as well since some of those Dells have proprietary PSU layouts. Then you'll need RAM. Also is that hard drive SATA or PATA?