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taylorwilsdon

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I've got a case, PSU, harddrive, opticals and all peripherals.

That would leave me with mobo, cpu and perhaps a dedicated video card if the price is right. All suggestions will be appreciated :)

(I'm talking CHEAP!) but powerful enough to drive a low resolution LCD.
 
What's your budget? Do you have DDR2 memory or plain old DDR? Cause if it's just DDR you'll need memory too unless you want a 939 motherboard or the Intel equivalant
 
Assume I don't have any memory (I do, but its an afterthought as I'd rather buy new)

I don't have a budget but I'd like to go cheap. Nothing dual core or anything like that unless its absurdly cheap.
 
Dude ebay or clearence / markdown bins at retail stores. I bought a perfectly good msi motherboard that someone had returned for who knows why which I'm stilll using to this day. The best part is even if you buy one of these boards that has been returned and its doa send it back the manufacturer bingo 4 days and you have a new working board for a big discount. This is just one method to computing on the cheap.
 
What's gonna be the purpose of this cheap PC? Work, internet browsing, or games? Oh and what kind of LCD are we talking about here?
 
No need for a dedicated graphics card. A lot of onboard video these days is pretty decent; only drawback is it shares your system memory.

You can get a mATX with onboard video and a reasonable single core CPU for pretty cheap. AMD socket 939 CPU/mobo will run $100ish. Go socket 754 and it will be closer to $80ish.
 
I'd really rather not go micro/mini ATX, as I've got a full ATX case and I'd like to take advantage of the cooling, ect.

I'm also a little wary of putting my trust in such a compacted piece of hardware.

No integrated graphics, its going to be pushing a HDTV (not HD content, though)

I'll see what newegg has to offer thats not sub-ATX.
 
We could help you out a lot better if you told us exactly what you're planning to do with this PC.
 
Danny Bui said:
We could help you out a lot better if you told us exactly what you're planning to do with this PC.
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Loading it up with my music and movies, and playing them back on my TV. I don't need a tuner and I won't be doing any streaming.

meatycheesyboy said:
If you have a Fry's handy, I would suggest: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1144731

Dual core for under $100. It's mATX but it will take DDR or DDR2.
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Thats a hot deal! I'll go to Frys on Monday and see if I can get that.
 
I've got a Frys thats about 20 minutes out.

I don't have a budget, if its going to cost me $2000, so be it. That pentium D looks pretty attractive to me, its a shame that its only AGP :(

I think I'll pick one up anyways.
 
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