pinkpanther718 Posted February 25, 2002 Posted February 25, 2002 Ok, my brothers PC is a pice of ****, I've been working on it fora few weeks now, but things just keep breaking, its very old. So We decided to just get a new PC for him. All I need is the actual PC itself and a monitor, everything else I have. So heres what I want: 800 mhz - 1 ghz cpu 32 mb at least Graphics card Any sound card 128 - 256 mb RAM As you can see, I'm not looking for something extremely fancy, just something that will hold up, and run most of the games around there today, even if its on a lower visual setting. So what I need help with is finding this PC. I don't wan to build it myself, just don't have the time these days. So where is a good place, online or otehrwise to get a custom built PC, thats cheap and meats my specs? Thanks.
gamebooger Posted February 25, 2002 Posted February 25, 2002 I haven't checked it out but I think at http://www.dell.com you can build a custom PC. and go for an AMD processor. Staying cheap you should get a gefore 2. As far as a sound card goes anything will do. Unless he has mulitiple speakers or they're powerful and you want to take advantage of 'em then you should look into it more.
pinkpanther718 Posted February 25, 2002 Author Posted February 25, 2002 No go on the AMD if I were to go with Dell. The slowest cpu speed they offer is 1 ghz butits like 500 bucks w/o monitor. To expensive, and that system is their budget is has nothing big for video. I think what I might do is get a computer w/o a video card or a crappy one, and when I buy a replacement for my TNT 2 I'll take it out of mine and put it in his. Or sell it and buy a Geforce 2 w/the money. Anyway, i'm still dry on the PC itself, anywhere other than Dell?
Dan12R Posted February 26, 2002 Posted February 26, 2002 AMD is key. They have the best CPUs today. Benchmark tests show that the Duron is just barely slower than a P3 and it's cheaper. A GeForce 2 card would be good. I paid like $75 for mine and it's a GeForce 2 MX 400 w/ 64 MB. Also, if you give a hoot about sound, go with a Sound Blaster Audigy card.
ERasER Posted February 26, 2002 Posted February 26, 2002 You're probably going to have problems finding a well-known, quality company that offers AMD processors at that speed and allows you to customize it as you want. If you do a search online for pre-built AMD systems you're bound to find 1,000's of "Bob and Joe's Computer Warehouse" type things, but I'm sure that they won't offer the quality that you'd be looking for. I think the best 2 companies that would offer quality pre-built systems would be Dell and Gateway, and both of those companies use Intel processors exclusively. It'd be real cheap to build the system yourself with an AMD processors but, if you don't have time, your only option would *probably* be to go with an Intel system. Maybe you have a friend or something who would be willing to help you build a system? That would be the best option IMO If you're really set on AMD you can go to their site and see what they have there about pre-built systems, but it doesn't look like they have a lot on it.
pinkpanther718 Posted February 26, 2002 Author Posted February 26, 2002 Ok, i think I might actually do the building myself in light of all these new facts. Well, what I need to ask now is... is there anyway to get a motherboard already set in a case, possibly with a cpu in it already, not nessesary though. If I could get a case w/motherbaord in it already, it would cut down my time since putting in a motherboard is really the one thing I have yet to do as far as computer work goes.
db6 Posted February 26, 2002 Posted February 26, 2002 You might want to try googlegear.com they offer very good Athlon/Intel PC kits with the case, motherboard, memory, CPU and HardDisk already installed for about $375.00. All you have to do is buy the graphic card, soundcard, and whatever else you need (CD, Floppy, Monitor...etc). You can even order these from them; they have pretty good prices. Good Luck P.S: Go under the "Systems" tab on their web-page, you'll find the kits listed as "Bare-bones" systems. They have new stuff everyday
pinkpanther718 Posted February 26, 2002 Author Posted February 26, 2002 Thank you very much for that google gear site, I will probably end up doing that, its exactly what I was looking for.
Roger Posted February 26, 2002 Posted February 26, 2002 Aslo check out New Egg (http://www.newegg.com) they have good prices and good parts. Roger
SaberPro Posted February 26, 2002 Posted February 26, 2002 www.pricewatch.com is a nice place to find components, it is a search engine to find computer parts. From your specs, it shouldn't cost much. Just FYI: MWave is nice (you can pickup so no shipping fee), NewEgg is nice, Crucial Memory is nice (2 day free shipping/handling and bad modules get replaced free).
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