- Aug 25, 2001
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I'm building a PC for a family friend who needs a new home office PC. She'd like it to last 5 years and is set on a 17" LCD. She does mostly MS Word, Internet, Email, MS Publisher, and some basic photo editing.
I don't think I'd bother overclocking this for her. All the stuff is priced from newegg including shipping unless a better price turns up. It's basically the recent Anandtech budget model with some of the optional upgrades. Any comments how I can make this better, or save money without sacrificing much performance?
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 512K 1.80 GHz socket 939 (Retail - Venice) $146.00
Motherboard: MSI nForce4 (939) K8N Neo4-F $85.00
Memory: 2x512MB Corsair Value Select PC3200 2.5-3-3-8 2T $83.00
Video Card: MSI RX300SE-TD128E Radeon X300SE 128MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail $53.00
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM $66.50
Optical Drive: NEC Silver IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - OEM $48.00
Floppy Drive: SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Windows 98SE/ ME/ 2000/ XP - OEM $13.50
Case, Power Supply, Speakers, Keyboard, Mouse bundle: Codegen 4C-4063S-CA Combo 350W PSU $69.00
EDIT: Alternate Case/PSU/etc.: Antec SLK1650B 350W case, cheap Logitech Keyboard/Mouse combo, use speakers included on Polyview LCD about $100 ($30 more than the Codegen option)
Display: Polyview V17E Silver-Black 17" 14ms LCD Monitor - Retail $210.00
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP HOME Edition With Service Pack 2 - OEM $90.00
Software: MS Office Basic 2003: Word, Excel, Powerpoint $172.00
Grand Total including monitor and office software and OS: $1,036.00 ($1,066.00 with Antec case option)
I don't think I'd bother overclocking this for her. All the stuff is priced from newegg including shipping unless a better price turns up. It's basically the recent Anandtech budget model with some of the optional upgrades. Any comments how I can make this better, or save money without sacrificing much performance?
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 512K 1.80 GHz socket 939 (Retail - Venice) $146.00
Motherboard: MSI nForce4 (939) K8N Neo4-F $85.00
Memory: 2x512MB Corsair Value Select PC3200 2.5-3-3-8 2T $83.00
Video Card: MSI RX300SE-TD128E Radeon X300SE 128MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail $53.00
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM $66.50
Optical Drive: NEC Silver IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - OEM $48.00
Floppy Drive: SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Windows 98SE/ ME/ 2000/ XP - OEM $13.50
Case, Power Supply, Speakers, Keyboard, Mouse bundle: Codegen 4C-4063S-CA Combo 350W PSU $69.00
EDIT: Alternate Case/PSU/etc.: Antec SLK1650B 350W case, cheap Logitech Keyboard/Mouse combo, use speakers included on Polyview LCD about $100 ($30 more than the Codegen option)
Display: Polyview V17E Silver-Black 17" 14ms LCD Monitor - Retail $210.00
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP HOME Edition With Service Pack 2 - OEM $90.00
Software: MS Office Basic 2003: Word, Excel, Powerpoint $172.00
Grand Total including monitor and office software and OS: $1,036.00 ($1,066.00 with Antec case option)