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
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.
core 2 duo 1.86 187usd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115005 intel core 2 duo board 87usd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813121047 athena 520 watt power supply 60usd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817148008 corsair 1gb ddr2 533 75 usd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145526 so far its 409 usd now the video card (and thats VERY GOOD considering it has a core 2 duo) a nvidia 7600gs 512mb 130 usd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814131019 total=539 and u could play on high new games
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.
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.
