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[DubbDesigns 10+ year member]

I ordered these parts for my manager at work. He was wanting a pretty fast computer for his home office. Not a gamer or anything. He just wanted a computer that will run all his office programs fast and efficiently.

I don't know much about this processor but it seems like it will do the job well.

Here is the parts list. All together I think the system ran $309

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB Hard Drive - 7200, 16MB, Serial ATA-300

MSI K9N6PGM2-V Motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5800+ Processor

(2) Kingston 1024MB PC5400 DDR2 Memory

Power Up Black Gamer ATX Mid-Tower Case with Front USB, Audio Ports and 450-Watt ATX Power Supply

Masscool 5F9001B1H3 CPU Cooling Fan - Socket 939, 940, AM2

Lite-On DH-20A4H-06 Super AllWrite DVDRW 20X PATA w/Lightscribe

Cooler Master RS-460-PMSP-A3 Extreme Power 460-Watt Power Supply - SATA Ready, PCI-E Ready

Bought the extra powersupply to put in place of the cheap power supply that came with the case.

How you think the computer will turn out?

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[cajun_duck 10+ year member]

Ok I guess. No video card? The onboard video isn't that great. What size is the cooling fan and what types of heatsinks? I'd go with at least 3 gigs of Ram and a quadcore processor. Also, at least one exhaust fan or liquid cooling.

 

[bread0710 10+ year member]

I ordered these parts for my manager at work. He was wanting a pretty fast computer for his home office. Not a gamer or anything. He just wanted a computer that will run all his office programs fast and efficiently.
I don't know much about this processor but it seems like it will do the job well.

Here is the parts list. All together I think the system ran $309

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB Hard Drive - 7200, 16MB, Serial ATA-300

MSI K9N6PGM2-V Motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5800+ Processor

(2) Kingston 1024MB PC5400 DDR2 Memory

Power Up Black Gamer ATX Mid-Tower Case with Front USB, Audio Ports and 450-Watt ATX Power Supply

Masscool 5F9001B1H3 CPU Cooling Fan - Socket 939, 940, AM2

Lite-On DH-20A4H-06 Super AllWrite DVDRW 20X PATA w/Lightscribe

Cooler Master RS-460-PMSP-A3 Extreme Power 460-Watt Power Supply - SATA Ready, PCI-E Ready

Bought the extra powersupply to put in place of the cheap power supply that came with the case.

How you think the computer will turn out?

thats perfect for tasks like that

 

[bread0710 10+ year member]

Ok I guess. No video card? The onboard video isn't that great. What size is the cooling fan and what types of heatsinks? I'd go with at least 3 gigs of Ram and a quadcore processor. Also, at least one exhaust fan or liquid cooling.

wht would you spend all that money for a guy who doesnt game or do anything really heavy? its fine for what he is going to do with it. and liquid cooling is pretty pointless with these new cpus they run cool with air. they are not like the old prescotts and stuff.

 

[sic402 10+ year member]

yea just get a video card and that would be perfect for anything, im really just 1 step up on most of what you are ordering (400 for mine) and i have no problems running new games like fallout3 so you could even do it for less.....

I think you can find 8600gts on newegg for ~$50 these days

wht would you spend all that money for a guy who doesnt game or do anything really heavy? its fine for what he is going to do with it. and liquid cooling is pretty pointless with these new cpus they run cool with air. they are not like the old prescotts and stuff.

I built my buddys comp and did liquid cooling with one of the new Phenom X4 920s..... Overlocked to 5.4ghz stable with a high of 60 degrees, things amazing.

 

[TurdFergueson2 5,000+ posts]

I ordered these parts for my manager at work. He was wanting a pretty fast computer for his home office. Not a gamer or anything. He just wanted a computer that will run all his office programs fast and efficiently.
I don't know much about this processor but it seems like it will do the job well.

Here is the parts list. All together I think the system ran $309

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB Hard Drive - 7200, 16MB, Serial ATA-300

MSI K9N6PGM2-V Motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5800+ Processor

(2) Kingston 1024MB PC5400 DDR2 Memory

Power Up Black Gamer ATX Mid-Tower Case with Front USB, Audio Ports and 450-Watt ATX Power Supply

Masscool 5F9001B1H3 CPU Cooling Fan - Socket 939, 940, AM2

Lite-On DH-20A4H-06 Super AllWrite DVDRW 20X PATA w/Lightscribe

Cooler Master RS-460-PMSP-A3 Extreme Power 460-Watt Power Supply - SATA Ready, PCI-E Ready

Bought the extra powersupply to put in place of the cheap power supply that came with the case.

How you think the computer will turn out?

That processor is decent. That would be a great budget pc. He could play WOW on that. If he wants to play Crysis or some graphic intense games, you'll need to up the board and get a decent video card. Otherwise, that machine will get the job done.

 

[BoomBoomBoy 10+ year member]

Ok I guess. No video card? The onboard video isn't that great. What size is the cooling fan and what types of heatsinks? I'd go with at least 3 gigs of Ram and a quadcore processor. Also, at least one exhaust fan or liquid cooling.

You don't need a vid card for running office apps.

3 gigs of ram would be a waste of money for his needs.

If he running at stock core speeds water cooling is unecessary.

If you ever decide to build a computer make sure you ask questions before you waste you money.

To the OP. That s/u will be kick *** for the application.

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

More than enough power for office apps. Honestly, you can get a dell with monitor for as low as 399. That would have been my route.

Not a bad pick though for building.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

You still should get a cheap video card to alleivate the bottle neck at the on board. I have built a couple office PC's and you wouldn't believe how much better a $20 video card makes a system run. Nothing fancy at all, just taking the strain off the mobo, and distributing it to a separate processor designed just for graphics helps ALOT.

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

I ordered these parts for my manager at work. He was wanting a pretty fast computer for his home office. Not a gamer or anything. He just wanted a computer that will run all his office programs fast and efficiently.
I don't know much about this processor but it seems like it will do the job well.

Here is the parts list. All together I think the system ran $309

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB Hard Drive - 7200, 16MB, Serial ATA-300

MSI K9N6PGM2-V Motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5800+ Processor

(2) Kingston 1024MB PC5400 DDR2 Memory

Power Up Black Gamer ATX Mid-Tower Case with Front USB, Audio Ports and 450-Watt ATX Power Supply

Masscool 5F9001B1H3 CPU Cooling Fan - Socket 939, 940, AM2

Lite-On DH-20A4H-06 Super AllWrite DVDRW 20X PATA w/Lightscribe

Cooler Master RS-460-PMSP-A3 Extreme Power 460-Watt Power Supply - SATA Ready, PCI-E Ready

Bought the extra powersupply to put in place of the cheap power supply that came with the case.

How you think the computer will turn out?

For just office tasks, that's more than perfect. You should probably install Vista since it's more aesthetically pleasing.

And, I think the PSU it came with would've been fine.

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

You still should get a cheap video card to alleivate the bottle neck at the on board. I have built a couple office PC's and you wouldn't believe how much better a $20 video card makes a system run. Nothing fancy at all, just taking the strain off the mobo, and distributing it to a separate processor designed just for graphics helps ALOT.

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But, I mean, if he's not gunna use any CAD systems or anything like that, he should be fine.

 

[BoomBoomBoy 10+ year member]

You still should get a cheap video card to alleivate the bottle neck at the on board. I have built a couple office PC's and you wouldn't believe how much better a $20 video card makes a system run. Nothing fancy at all, just taking the strain off the mobo, and distributing it to a separate processor designed just for graphics helps ALOT.

How did you measure this to verify the results? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

shuttles make the best office systems. small, quiet and low power consumption

a full system no larger than a shoe box with a dual core, 4gb ram and a 750gb hard drive for under $400 shipped

 

[DubbDesigns 10+ year member]

Yeah. I had a bettter system lined up for him, but the parts were all on sale and in stock when I priced it, but when I went to order it for him today they were not to be found.

So I just hurried up and built something that had good specs and hoped it would turn out well enough to please him.

I told him if he didnt like it I would buy it off him and use it.

I am sure if I slapped in a cheap video card it would play my fav game for PC (GTA:SA)

I had an older Athlon XP 2400 with a gig of ram and 64mb video card and it ran that game **** near perfectly.