cegha
06-12-06, 11:59 AM
Ok, fathers day is this saturday or sunday or something like that. Anyways i was thinking about building my dad a new PC. He needs it. His current one is like a P2 or P3 with mabye 128mb of RAM that somehow manages to run win XP. It use to run windows 98.
Anyways, i was wondering if there are any deals going on, for something decent and cheap, to bring him up to this generation.
I remember a long while ago some site had like a ECS motherboard and a sempron for $79.
Any good deals like that i would love.
I was looking at AM2, stuff considering it supports DDR2 RAM. I have about 7GBs of spare DDR2 on hand at the moment, and thought i could make use of some of it.
Are there any deals on like AM2 CPU's? Newegg has the AM2 3000+ for $105, was there any better prices out there. I kinda would like to get a motherboard, cpu, and harddrive for under $150 or so.
The harddrive doesn't need to be a monster 750GB one, just something like 80GB or so will work fine.
I got a case, PSU, cd-drive, and RAM, so all i really need is a motherboard, harddrive, and CPU. I would prefer the motherboard support DDR2.
I remember looking at the lower end P-D's. Have those dropped to the $100 or less mark yet?
Again any deals you guys know of post them. I will sort through them and give them a looking over.
All help is appreciated.
Edit: Ok a bit of intraweb searching has leaded me to believe that the Prescott Pentium D Celeron's arn't too terrible. So this is what i have come up with.
Motherboard - http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4136893?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
$20, supports DDR2, supports Celeron D, seems ok.
harddrive - http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4551457
$40, 100GB, cheapest 80GB hd on newegg is like ~$45, so i figure it's not a bad deal.
CPU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819112203
$67, the Celeron-D.
Does that look ok for a person that checks email, browses the web, and types stuff in word occasionally?
Anyways, i was wondering if there are any deals going on, for something decent and cheap, to bring him up to this generation.
I remember a long while ago some site had like a ECS motherboard and a sempron for $79.
Any good deals like that i would love.
I was looking at AM2, stuff considering it supports DDR2 RAM. I have about 7GBs of spare DDR2 on hand at the moment, and thought i could make use of some of it.
Are there any deals on like AM2 CPU's? Newegg has the AM2 3000+ for $105, was there any better prices out there. I kinda would like to get a motherboard, cpu, and harddrive for under $150 or so.
The harddrive doesn't need to be a monster 750GB one, just something like 80GB or so will work fine.
I got a case, PSU, cd-drive, and RAM, so all i really need is a motherboard, harddrive, and CPU. I would prefer the motherboard support DDR2.
I remember looking at the lower end P-D's. Have those dropped to the $100 or less mark yet?
Again any deals you guys know of post them. I will sort through them and give them a looking over.
All help is appreciated.
Edit: Ok a bit of intraweb searching has leaded me to believe that the Prescott Pentium D Celeron's arn't too terrible. So this is what i have come up with.
Motherboard - http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4136893?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
$20, supports DDR2, supports Celeron D, seems ok.
harddrive - http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4551457
$40, 100GB, cheapest 80GB hd on newegg is like ~$45, so i figure it's not a bad deal.
CPU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819112203
$67, the Celeron-D.
Does that look ok for a person that checks email, browses the web, and types stuff in word occasionally?