$500 budget - experts needed

primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
edited October 2003 in Hardware
My friend Living Dead Child has a $500 budget. I referred him here so that the "experts" can configure the best system that he can get for the money. Prove my point that you guys will be able to throw the best system possible together for that amount of money. :)

So, with that in mind:

Tower Case
500 watt Power Supply
Athlon Processor
Good motherboard (preferable Asus)
1Gig of RAM.

LDC: What about a video card. Are you gonna need one?

Comments

  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited October 2003
    If you hold on sir...I've got a budget PC recommendation article in the works from the members...That big honkin link at the top of every forum. It should be your answer as who knows better but our members. :)
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited October 2003
    What about cdrom/dvd, floppy and hard drive? Do these count in the $500 total or does he have them already?
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4831

    NS
  • Living-Dead-ChildLiving-Dead-Child Detroit New
    edited October 2003
    I am not worrying about the video card till after the new year. I will be playing Doom3 and Half-Life 2.

    I have the hard drives and cd-roms and such.

    Thank you
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited October 2003
    So it is safe to not include, the keyboard, mouse, monitor, os etc...? Are you looking for a decent video card to hold you over or what? What is this system going to be used for? any overclocking at all?
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    just go with the good old 2500+ with a slk900, an enermax 92mm adjustable fan, a nf7-s revision2 (or get the newer one that abi will be shipping out in a month of so) as for power supply, you should look on ebay for an antec 500w true power, they have em for like 100 or so...as for RAM, since he doesnt wanna spend too much, get geil pc3200...with the voltage capabilities of the nf7 there shouldnt be a problem getting it to perform in dual mode
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