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Cheapest system for Athlon 2100+
I'm gonna be building a system for my Pop, and I'll be giving him my 2100+
as I upgrade to a Mobile 2500+. Aside from CPU I already have all the externals (mouse, keyboard, case, monitor, speakers). What would be the cheapest route? Would a barebones be the way to go? Thanks. |
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"TickleMeEmu" wrote in message ... I'm gonna be building a system for my Pop, and I'll be giving him my 2100+ as I upgrade to a Mobile 2500+. Aside from CPU I already have all the externals (mouse, keyboard, case, monitor, speakers). What would be the cheapest route? Would a barebones be the way to go? Thanks. I used an asus terminator barebones (around £100 GBP then) for a palomino 2000+ and it works fine. Rememebr with barebones you need to buy a hard disk and possibly a modem. Only problem with them is the lack of airflow, it runs so hot it has to be underclocked to about 1.2GHz, but luckily the user didnt notice. Still works great for firewire video capture and editing. hamman |
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"TickleMeEmu" wrote in message ... I'm gonna be building a system for my Pop, and I'll be giving him my 2100+ as I upgrade to a Mobile 2500+. Aside from CPU I already have all the externals (mouse, keyboard, case, monitor, speakers). What would be the cheapest route? Would a barebones be the way to go? Thanks. That depends. Power supply is most of the cost of a case, usually, IF the power supply isn't junk. You didn't state whether you had a power supply. You can find a good mainboard for about 60 bucks (probably less), and a decent hard drive for about 65 bucks. Newegg has a decent power supply on sale for ~40 bucks at the moment. http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...153-006&DEPA=0 Your NIC and sound should be built into the motherboard, to save money. If you want, you can even have video built into the motherboard. Check out the following for ~60 bucks: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...138-234&depa=0 Then you need RAM, minimum 512MB, like the following for $74: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...146-217&depa=0 I don't think you can build anything decent for less than ~$250, but that includes a power supply. I just spec'd out a barebone at www.mwave.com for $275, but that included power supply and CPU, but did NOT include video card. So barebone would be about the same cost I think, if you could convince someone to sell you a barebone without a CPU. Don't forget a new cooling fan (HSF) for your CPU. Good luck, -Dave |
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TickleMeEmu wrote: I'm gonna be building a system for my Pop, and I'll be giving him my 2100+ as I upgrade to a Mobile 2500+. Aside from CPU I already have all the externals (mouse, keyboard, case, monitor, speakers). What would be the cheapest route? Would a barebones be the way to go? Thanks. A couple of months ago I priced out all the parts for a nice, complete, midrange system based on asus A7N266 mobo in a small case for under $300. Add $90 for XP/home, or nothing, for Linux. Everything was on newegg.com Mobo w/NIC, sound, and video CPU case & PSU 256 memory 40GB disk CD burner & bundled software floppy I _think_ this mobo takes your chip. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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