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Low budget system from scratch. Your thoughts :

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Hello all...

I can't spend $1000

I plan on spending $400> on a CTX PR960F 19 inch FD Trinitron - thought that will be later as I have a pos monitor to use for now.

I will need a case/PS/HSF, CPU/Motherboard/Memory/HDD/SoundCard/Video. I need it all but the monitor.

I was looking at the AMD Sempron. Seems like the next generation Duron - The Duron was the last processor I built a machine out of ( and is now with an ex-lover )

So under the assumption that the Sempron is the best bang for low budgetness. Lay it on me.

I was thinking an OEM Soundblaster Audigy would be the way to go, unless there is another suggestion.

I really have no plan to overclock this machine - So memory can be a little underpriced as well. I might be able to splurge some Cas2 - but Mushkin/Crucial kinda pricey. I wa shoping going for cheap ram and lots of it... but who knows. There could be a better ram at 512 MG than a gig of the crappy ram.

The video card is the most difficult to shop for. So many...

I have heard IBM hard drives are good. I only need like 10-20 GB. 7200 RPM is wanted, or greater if found for cheap.

No bunrer either - just a plane old cd-rom drive will be sufficient. I don't even need or want a floppy.

Well... If I couild give a figure. I don't want to spend more than $400-$500 dollars.

I don't play FPS for [H]ard leetness anymore, in fact I am playing City of Heroes a good deal and really just want a decent machine to run this.
 
I would go with an Athlon XP (possibly retail to get stock hsf) chip and an NForce 2 Ultra board. You'll probably get better performance than the sempron, from what i've heard the sempron sucks.
 
Hmm...

I must have misunderstood the hype when it first came out. That or the evidence was inconclusive and I simply jumped to the conclusion that it was good. ( In the since that the Duron was good )

o an Athlon XP eh?
 
I can vouch strongly for the ABIT NF7-s rev.2. Mine has been very reliable, fast and it has the soundstorm onboard audio; which still kicks ass. That is if you can still get it.
 
IBM hard drives no longer exist, look into Hitachi's line. They make fast and reliable drives.

IMO, 1gb is great. Go cheaper RAM if you have to, but don't settle with 512mb.

Get a CD-RW/DVD combo drive.. it'll only set you back $25 or so more then a regular cd drive.
 
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