College Budget

[vike105]

A friend wants me to build him a pc, he's not going to really game much on it. Budget is probally 300-400 and these are the parts he need:

Cpu: Amd Athlon 64 3000 $146
Motherboard: ???
Ram: Corsair 2x512 $83
Hard Drive: 80gb something $60
Case: ??? Something with a psu that's quiet and not too ugly


Everything else i got, will take suggestions on upgrading or downgrading any of the parts because money IS an issue and the closer to 300 the better but i also realize that you can't build crap systems. No overclocking on this system either.

 

[wasserkool]

for the motherboard, check out the ATI Xpress 200 series with the integrated X300..its directX 9 compatible too and it is not expensive

 

[vike105]

thanks on the suggestion on the motherboard

 

[davidjaii]

why not just get a dell?

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: davidjaii
why not just get a dell?

exactly, do you really want to be tech support forever? get him a dell

 

[GamerExpress]

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: davidjaii
why not just get a dell?

exactly, do you really want to be tech support forever? get him a dell

or a HP

 

[AmberClad]

Dell, HP. Or eMachines if he really wants an AMD. He'd probably get more for his money with the Dell though.

 

[AlucardX]

if he's not gaming i dont even see the point of getting a amd64. u could build a cheap socket A box with an nforce2 or something