PC build for friend, looking for help

[seer33]

My friend is looking to build his own pc with my help , ive built 4 computers for myself. I'm looking to get suggestions from you guys about what we should do for components. The budget is $1000 and the the computer will be mainly used as a digital audio workstation. with surfing, homework, that type of stuff. He's a college student. Well, for $1000 wat kind of components would you guys reccomend? Monitor is not inlcuded in the figure, this is for the tower only. Thanks in advance for any help :)

[cornbread]

Is he going to overclock it any? For digital audio I would get at least 1Gb or ram. Make sure you get a good PSU, that's important...nothing cheap, something like the Fortron Blue Storm is a good choice. Get a AMD 64 or P4 with Hyper Threading, that will help with digital audio. Good audio card like the Chaintech A710, I think it's around 25 bucks or the Creative Labs Audigy 2Zs for around 70 bucks and up...maybe cheaper now. That's a few things I could think of.

[seer33]

thanks cornbread. But im looking to get some example builds to show him to see if he likes, i havent been up to date as of late so im asking you guys for help

[EWBatOVAclockin]

Why don't you give us what you think will be good(the whole system) then we will tell you what to change :cool:

PEACE

[seer33]

Board DFI NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 939 $133.00

CPU AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512KB L2 Cache, Socket 939 64-bit $190.00

Heatsink ZALMAN CNPS7000B-ALCU ULTRA QUIET $40.00

PS OCZ PowerStream 420W Power Supply $102.50

Case Lian-Li Black Aluminum Case $139.00

Memory G.skill Dual Channel Kit 184-Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC3200 $98.99

Hard drives Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive $113.00
Seagate 120GB Barracuda 7200RPM SATA with NCQ Hard Drive $93.00

Videocard MSI nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT , 128MB DDR3, 128-Bit, DVI/TV-Out $184.00

Soundcard MAudio Audiophile 2496 $99.99

DVD-ROM NEC 16X Double Layer DVD±RW Drive, Black $51.99

Monitor ViewSonic VA712B-1 17" LCD Monitor $240.99




Total : $1,486



hows that looking? Expanded budget to 1500 for computer and monitor. Hows this looking?

[nealric]

Is he doing hard core audio rendering?

If so, it might be worth waiting a month or two for dual core processors.