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Hero · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:15 am Post subject: need a suggestion

Well I am building my dad a new pc. He doesnt need much, but something decent. At this point anything will be an upgrade from his crappy pc.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5205425&CatId=2405

Its a barebone kit. All it would need is a better psu for him. Any suggestions? Can this be done better? Again he does not require much.

His current specs are:
Pentium 4 3.2ghz/Hyperthread
ddr1 1gb 333hz
dual 80GB HDD
Geforce 7300LE
windows xp

The damn thing is just getting so slow, and seemingly slower by the day. He likes intel and I really doubt he needs anything more than a dual core. Will this work for him? Seems like a decent deal to me. He only needs 2gb ram, and he doesn't need to SLI or anything special. He can probably go with the onboard chipset for a while too.

Can anyone top this?

Konata Izumi · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:16 am Post subject:

looks good, its a 500gb hard drive btw.
psu would probably work fine.

Hero · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:33 am Post subject:

Konata Izumi · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:37 am Post subject:

http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

Shota · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:43 am Post subject:

Inb4 hobo build:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10009983
$60
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?nm_mc=AFC-SlickDeals&cm_mmc=AFC-SlickDeals-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&ItemList=Combo.322408
$60
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.319122
$60
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231084
$50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121310&cm_re=4350-_-14-121-310-_-Product
$20 AR

$250dollar total.
This is super hobo, and most of them are on a deal right now so yeah

Hero · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:10 am Post subject:

Yea its not going to need the whole 300w, but I'm going to use his old psu anyway.

I just wanted to make sure this deal was pretty good. It sounded amazing to me, and its not like he could need more than 4gb. He was like, "I WANT 4 FUCKING GB". It was funny.

Zurkei · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:50 am Post subject:

elpacco · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:38 pm Post subject:

His current specs are fine for his purposes, much better than my dad's computer and his runs fine as long as I do some maintenance every once in a while (mainly just running through things in tune up utilities. Just run a defrag and uninstall programs on his computer for him. If the windows rot has progressed enough, save his stuff to an ext hdd and reformat.

Hero · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:40 pm Post subject:

He wants 4gb, he wants it bad, and if he is willing to pay for it, he can have it. He is 41 yrs old, I think he should get what he wants lol. But he did say he would like to eventually play something real. I doubt he will go play something like MW2. I know he wont play crysis or anything heavy of the sorts. I think this will do him nicely.

Shota · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:57 pm Post subject:

Last thing i at my house:
Installed Gentoo at my p4.

Saifallofjmr · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:58 am Post subject:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103228

buy 2x2gb of ram for it so you have 4gb of ram, a 9600gt (thats the ion) and a good cpu.

superweapons · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:57 pm Post subject:

NVIDIA Ion is based around the slow 9400. That added on top of a meh Intel Atom single core (dual core would've been preferred), lackluster HDD and RAM, and an outdated OS makes this not that awesome of a deal.

You're better off building a system from scratch if you intend to improve performance IMO. There's not a lot that you can salvage and you'll still have an extra system laying around for use as a home server or something. For an OEM system, you can get this Compaq rig, although it's priced closer to $400 total. With a bit more, you can get this Acer Aspire system which seems to be priced well for the performance.