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Jun 12, 2008, 09:39 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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budget build... your opinions?
my parents need a new computer and wanted to stick to about a 300 dollar budget. heres what i came up with.
seagate 7200.10 250gig ASUS M2A-VM Antec earthwatts EA430 430W CORSAIR XMS2 2GB AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane Total - 310.96 i actually cant believe how nice of system you can get now for next to nothing. |
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Jun 13, 2008, 11:45 AM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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little bump
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Jun 13, 2008, 12:07 PM
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Indeed, one can't complain with those figures. Personally I'd look at more RAM(2x2) as I find that useful for any level of system with todays prices. The operating system can always put extra RAM to use.
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Jun 13, 2008, 01:56 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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i was thinking about that, but 4 gigs for XP and wordpad and internet browsing? i was thinking what i had now was overkill.
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Jun 13, 2008, 02:20 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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I built similar office system with XP recently and I say even 1 GB is enough for this purpose. Sure DDR2 memory is cheap, but why waste more money? 4 GB is overkill definitely
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Jun 13, 2008, 02:29 PM
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yeah i agree. I recently built a system for my parents including a cheap ECS board, 1GB DDR2 Patriot gaming RAM (out of my old system) and an AMD 2400+, with 250GB Seagate Barracuda HDD. IT was way more than enough to do what they do on a computer  |
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Jun 18, 2008, 11:32 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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just orderd their system, with a few slight changes.
A64 4800+ X2 Asus M3A-H OCZ 2x1 DDR2 1066 Antec Earthwatts 430 Seagate 250gig Total - 390 shipped. 310 after rebates. and this will be replacing their old Foxconn unknown mobo, Socket A 2600+ Barton, 512megs unknown ram, Power Edge 230w with a might 8A on the 12v rail. |
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