Should i reuse these parts or sell?

[aaportnell]

As well as building my own new pc i am attempting to build my girfriend a pc too.

 

She has chosen a case already and we are shopping around for cheap parts that will do the job.

The budget is £300 including monitor.

I have some parts from my current pc (a cheap ebay purchase about 3 years ago) that i am thinking about reusing in her pc.

Does anyone think that this is not a wise decision, the parts i would be reusing are:

RAM - Corsair DDR2 2x1GB 800MHz (around 2 years old)

HDD - Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200rpm (IDE interface so i can't reuse it)

GPU - PNY GeForce 8800?? 512MB?? - cant quite remember

PSU - Octigen 400W AL-8400BTX - probably will be getting a new psu!

 

Are any of these components worth keeping rather than selling?, i was probably going to re-use the heatskink/fan for the cpu, aswell as the RAM and hard drive, not sure about anything else.

 

It wont get much strenuous use, office maybe some light gaming (she quite likes portal!)

 

 

Other than that has anyone got any suggestions for parts that i should get?

ATX motherboard?

also was going to go with AMD processors??

 

thanks for any comments!

[MrAlex]

Sell the PSU, RAM and HDD. Only keep the GPU.

Then buy a single 2GB stick of DDR3, a cheap 400W PSU (from a recognised company though!) and a HDD (you can find 250GB for like $20). As for motherboard, you can buy a cheap 870 chipset motherboard (if you want it to be recent) or if you'd like to save some money a 770. As for CPU, a cheap AMD Athlon II X2 will suffice, and the energy efficient verisons are around the same price so look out for an AMD Athlon II X2 215e. Also, use a 64-Bit OS. Even though she'll only have 2GB, thats plenty for a 64-Bit OS, and she'll get a minor performance boost for 64-Bit applications.

 

That's my take on it anyway

[jk336699]

Tigerdirect deal

 

Get this tigerdirect deal and done!!!

[airman]

^Keep in mind he is in the UK. I agree with alex, sell everything but the graphics card. However, DDR2 can still be used on an AM2 system so you may be able to save some pennies by keeping that and getting a system that still uses DDR2, but don't shortchange yourself if you want to futureproof, because DDR2 is almost already out the door with the new Intel and AM3 motherboards. The 8800 is still a decent card and will definitely last for a little while longer before it becomes too old to play the latest games (on a reasonably sized monitor, 22" and under probably). 300 quid including a monitor is a little hard to work with, but a barebone kit would certainly be the way to go. What size monitor are you wanting to get?

[kobalt]

I have my window files on a 160 gig, true that all programs are stored in there to work but having windows on a separate drive saved my life once, i caught a virus and it totally screwed up the drive good thing i didn't load it on the same drive with all my stuff all i had to do is reload windows and load back everything. So i have windows and whatever it takes to run everything on a 160 and all my video stuff (movies etc) is on a TB and everything i ever downloaded on a 1- 1/2 one. soooo a little drive is always good