Need help building Home/Office machine...

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homerjr43

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Well i have lots of ideas and i know most people hear are gamers myself included but my fiancee' uncle wants me to build a machine for him his budget is 1000 for everything inlcuding monitor.. Please help with suggestions...Im open to both ATI/nvidia and AMD/Intel... I most likely iwll buy from newegg or cheifvalue..i also may consider monarch...I also would not mind suggestions from Dell that could be upgraded. So as i know all of you here love to do...build me a machine... :D :D :D

Need....

1. power supply
2. case
3. motherboard
4. cpu
5. heatsink
6. video card
7. memory
8. DVD burner
9. hard drive
10. speakers
11. keyboard
12. mouse
13. LCD 17inch or bigger

Thanks in advance...
 
What is it mainly going to be used for? You say home/office machine so I assume it will be mostly web/emil/word/etc...?
 
what do you think he will like?

sff/shuttle?
big tower? lian li?
cheap ass case?

that is one decision to make right away..

he would probably be fine with anything somewhat modern really.. i got my mom on a 1.2ghz duron with ddr 400 (running 2x the cpu bus).. 512mb of ram.. and it does everything she needs and more...

so really.. you could do something for $500.. i will price out about a $700 computer.. and you can choose the k/v/m....

prices are all rounded.. cause we all know they change every 22 minutes anyways

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103537
3000+ venice ($150)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813152053
chaintech vnf4 ($75) or maybe:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130491
msi k8n neo-4f ($85)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820218405
twinmos SP ddr 400 x 2 ($100)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822152014
samsung spinpoint 160gb ($80)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102528
saphire x300se ($55) (i really don' tknow about video cards, but i know that will still do what he needs and then some)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152047
nec dvd- buner ($45).. i don't know much about those either.. no need for one yet..


and actually i will stop there.. you will pick a nice case.. and a nice $50+ psu.. sparkle/forton/pc p&c/zippy/enermax

logitec for keyboard and mouse probably.. maybe microsoft.. it depends what he likes

and i don't know what is good for lcds.. probably a dell 17 inch ultrasharp.. whatever that one is.. or a decent viewsonic.. i have always liked viewsonic..

you should have no trouble staying in that bunget..

you could go shuttle too.. that will take more money up front than most case/psu/mobo combos.. unless even if each part is $100.. maybe for intel though.. i haven't looked at any socket "t" sff barebones...
 
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