System for 400 bucks...

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I've got a buddy that wants to piece something together for games... He's got 400 bucks and needs a processor, MB, RAM. and vid card.

What do you suggest?
 
newegg deal for their athlon 3700 socket 754 oem that comes with an agp motherboard is only 205. 512 of value ram is 40ish. video card...6600gt or 6800nu is b/w 125 and 180. HSF less than 30
 
he is ripping himself off, you can't build a good gaming machine for that little. He needs to get some more funding, donations, corporate contributions, have a fund raising party, maybe $100 a plate for tater tots and corn dogs.
 
yeah 400 is cutting it close but the system i just named can play "every" game at medium detail. I have a 3500 s939 w/ a gig of ram and 6600gt and i play doom3 and fear with it, runs fine
 
pc2-4200 ddr2-533

You can run this with a 800fsb processor, right?
 
go cheap and get a nf3-250 mobo and a sempron 2800+ 754 then OC it to 2.4..u can get that combo for 125 easy. then get a gig of ram for like 75 then spend 200 on a decent video card...
 
Motherboard
BIOSTAR GEFORCE 6100-M7 Socket 754 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD
$59.99

Video Cards
1 MSI RX800-TD128E Radeon X800 128MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
Model #: RX800-TD128E
$30.00 Mail-in Rebate
$139.00

Power Supplies
1 SPARKLE ATX-350PA ATX12V 350Watts Power Supply,24pin & 4pin, SATA - OEM
$29.99

Memory - System
2 G.SKILL 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model F1-3200PHU1-512NT - OEM
Each $34.00 Total $68.00

Processors
1 AMD Sempron 64 2800+ Palermo 800MHz FSB Socket 754 Processor Model
$75.50



1 NEC Black IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner Model ND-3550A - OEM
$40.99

All for 438 shipped and a 30 dollar rebate thus total would be 408
 
Is there a full ATX MB that is cheap that supports the Sempron?
 
All Socket 754 mobos support the sempron 64's...whether the bios will recognize the proc as a sempron or gneric athlon 64 that is another question. you need to check the bios updates..i have a nforce 3-250 from chaintech...with a 2800+ and it works great

ERIK
 
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