Help with building a system

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swedishlf

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Hey guys, I'm relatively out of the loop on new hardware as I'm too damn poor to do to much with it. I have been asked to build a gaming PC for my cousin though, and he's got around $600 to spend, after shipping.

He has:
Case
PSU
Monitor
KB/Mouse
Speakers

Basically I'm looking for:
CPU/Mobo, Graphics Card, HSF, HD, Optical, and memory

Can a decent system be had for around $600? Doesn't have to be screaming, doesn't have to have bells and whistles, this will be his first computer.

Thanks guys!
 
It certainly could be done. I'd be curious what PSU he has. Anything higher than a "low-end" system shouldn't be run on a generic, no-name PSU.
 
Yes it can be done go for athlon socket AM2 so it is upgradeable, 1 gig of ram, uhm a radeon x1600, a small hard drive and a dvd unit. Youll need to spend the whole 600 i think. The PSU question is a good one, because if it malfunctions you are risking the MB or the processor, it happened to me with a shitty PSU about 3 years ago. That would certainly restraint your budget.
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2000MHz HT 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Dual Core Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103735
169.00

Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128321
97.00

eVGA 256-P2-N584-AR Geforce 7900GT KO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130033
270.00

CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) Unbuffered System Memory Model VS1GB533D2 - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145525
79.00

Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822135106
43.00

Total = 658.00

Just a suggestion :)
 
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