Building a computer, need some pointers.

[elementxero 10+ year member]

Dont forget to buy your OS

hahahaaahahahaa.....

seriously though, was that a joke?

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

My picks for a $400 budget:

Shuttle Barebones $110 shipped

Dual Core 65w CPU $76 shipped

2gb Memory $83 shipped

250gb hard drive $71 shipped

DVD Burner $34 shipped

Thats a great pc for under $400

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

First of all, you're missing components as already pointed out ...
Secondly, your mom is going to be doing lots of photo editing, yet you supply her w/ an 80 GB hard drive ? 500 GB hard drives are dirt cheap (

Thirdly, if you're going to go w/ AMD and you're not going to do any 3D apps, pick up a 690G or GeForce 7050 chipset board. They're cheaper, have decent onboard video, and most of them are quite good. That'll save you a ton of dough which you can invest into the CPU and memory.

I didnt know that they were that cheap, i thought they were more expensive, ill look into that.

My picks for a $400 budget:
Shuttle Barebones $110 shipped

Dual Core 65w CPU $76 shipped

2gb Memory $83 shipped

250gb hard drive $71 shipped

DVD Burner $34 shipped

Thats a great pc for under $400

Looks like a definate possibility.

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

Done some looking around and have picked out all of this.

Barebones

http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?item=N82E16856110073

CPU (in combo deal with barebones)

http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103749

PSU (read the one is the case is kind of shitty and i need another one anyway)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817153023

Memory (same as scoobydoo)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145527

Will be buying Xp from my brothers computer-nerd-friend.

Extra case fan (Missouri heat is a *****)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835119033

HDD

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144176

Have a DVD/CD burner waiting to be installed, will be ordering everything on the first.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

I love building computers, I have built 3 of them, the one I'm on now, my brothers computer and the family computer. Its fun and challenging, I definitely prefer it to car audio, lol.

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

I love building computers, I have built 3 of them, the one I'm on now, my brothers computer and the family computer. Its fun and challenging, I definitely prefer it to car audio, lol.

Im still trying it out, but it still cant beat car audio with all of its fun and addictiveness. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

Im still trying it out, but it still cant beat car audio with all of its fun and addictiveness. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

IDK, with PCs theres a new processor or video card out like every day.