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cheapest of the cheap
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12. February 2007 @ 15:11 |
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my friend asked me to build him a computer he wants it to be like the cheapest you can buy, he mainly wants it for internet, watching movies and playing games like call of duty 2
can anyone help me find some ok parts for him
thnx
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12. February 2007 @ 16:02 |
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um how much 500bucks or so? we need a budget to know what to look 4
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12. February 2007 @ 16:52 |
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well, i would say around 300-450
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12. February 2007 @ 17:02 |
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at that point, the only way you'll be able to build it would be to really just use subpar or cheap used parts. he's better off buying a prebuilt anywhere below about $600, in my opinion.
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12. February 2007 @ 17:10 |
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13. February 2007 @ 04:49 |
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if he wants something decent he will just have to pay for it.
$400 is not going to get you a good gaming system.
But Dell does have some systems that MAY work for around $600.
Building a good system cost me about $1000 and that is not even including the speakers, monitor, hard drives and optical drives which i pulled from my old system.
a good graphics card alone is about $150
good RAM is about that as well for 1GB
I would say the lowest system he will be able to get away with is around $600 with a decent grapgics card, RAM, motherboard, case and decent processor.
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13. February 2007 @ 13:00 |
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what would be the best processor below the core 2 duo?
something around 100- 150
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13. February 2007 @ 13:05 |
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13. February 2007 @ 14:20 |
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below that too, what would be best before all of them core 2 duos popped up, maybe the pentium D?
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13. February 2007 @ 14:22 |
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well yeah but dude for 25 bucks more! u could get a core 2 duo and the performance increase is ALOT
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14. February 2007 @ 06:26 |
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Originally posted by Auslander:
at that point, the only way you'll be able to build it would be to really just use subpar or cheap used parts. he's better off buying a prebuilt anywhere below about $600, in my opinion.
yea i agree. if thats all he cares about then theres really no point in getting a custom built one. i dont care for dell but a $300-$400 dell will do just fine for that.
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