Guest Loony Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 My girlfriend is about to move out on her own. The computer she uses now needs to stay at the house, so I offered to build her one. We could probably buy one cheaper, but I wanted to see if I could pull off building a cheaper one. She'd be running XP pro and doing mostly word and power point stuff. She plays a couple games like gunbound. I have a nice AGP card for her already, so a board with an 8x AGP would be nice, and no DDR2...too expensive. Basically, I need to find a cheap mobo, cpu, hdd, and ram. For the CPU I was thinking about a prescott, but I'm not sure. Any help helps! Thanks guys! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
momoceio Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 I've got a LanParty UT NF3 250GB, Sempron 64 2800+, Gigabyte 3D Aurora case, 600 Watt HiPro PSU and Memorex DVD-RW drive that I'll sell you if you want I just ordered parts for a new PC...unless you're needing it ASAP or want something else... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devil 07 Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Abit AV8 on eBay. It rocks. Have one as a back-up board in a system. It's AGP x8 and will support dual-core 939. one of the few AGP boards that can run old AGP graphics and Dual-core CPU's. DDR 1 as well, so if you have some old sticks lying around there you go. If you think you can beat a $300 Dell special. This board is a great place to start. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Loony Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Do you guys think 512 ram is enough? Or should I go for 1gb? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleDavid218 Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Definitely go for 1GB 1GB is "the new" 512MB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
faheyd Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 My girlfriend is about to move out on her own. The computer she uses now needs to stay at the house, so I offered to build her one. We could probably buy one cheaper, but I wanted to see if I could pull off building a cheaper one. She'd be running XP pro and doing mostly word and power point stuff. She plays a couple games like gunbound. I have a nice AGP card for her already, so a board with an 8x AGP would be nice, and no DDR2...too expensive. Basically, I need to find a cheap mobo, cpu, hdd, and ram. For the CPU I was thinking about a prescott, but I'm not sure. Any help helps! Thanks guys! Stole from deal site: Definitely warm with the free shipping. (Unfortunately, not tax free for many of us.) Dell Dimension E521 AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ 16X DVD ROM Drive NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Integrated Graphics GPU Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio $399 Shipped. Note: Choose "no monitor" to see the $399 price. If you're not getting "free shipping" you're likely not clicking on "free 3-5 day shipping" http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/con...c=bdcwbbz&s=bsd Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
momoceio Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 Wow...thats a pretty nice deal there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebdoradz Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 sell the agp card and get her a DELL 1st time ever i recommend DELL, but you cant go wrong for the preice and its a X2 amd cpu tumbs up Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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