thanx for the reply sammorris..
fortunately it's not my buy. it's my neighbors' kid .. his 13 years old kid wants a computer and his dad asked me to see if i can put something together for him. He got some parts from somewhere.. not enough for a complete system though. he doesnt want to spend too much for a 13 years old, so he asked me to come with some part and finish the system.
i know he has the EVGA GPU.. the hard drive, the dvd rom, the case.
so.. since it's a tight budget. this is what i come up with..
tell me what do you think.?
The Athlon X2 7750, while not my personal choice, isn't a bad budget CPU. The ASRock board concerns me as I'm not really convinced by their build quality. For an $80 motherboard, it'd be better to go with a Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3HP:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128373 I'm also a bit wary of Xigmatek coolers and their strange design. A more proven heatsink will be this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185125 The PSU and memory are fine, obviously.
If he already has the graphics card fair enough, as 9600GTs were better value back then, it's just buying them nowadays is silly, they're well overpriced as they're outdated hardware.
With only a 512MB graphics card, using 32-bit is fine. 3.5GB is much better than 2GB, so buying 4GB of RAM is still fine.
