I want to build a computer for my mother for christmas present. She only use computer for internet and I want to run vista ultimate on it. What is good combination of part that are inexpensive. I have dealt with high end alot but I never built low end computers so little advice could help. Although it is low end I want the computer be able to do good at what it is built for. Meaning not become laggy in vista and run internet fine.
2007-12-12 03:59:40 · 5 answers · asked by jason 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
if u dont know how.. dont. get a real cheap one from tiger direct.
2007-12-12 04:05:21 · answer #1 · answered by sam in the 619 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try an Antec 1650 case(comes with decent 350watt Antec PSU). Asus P5LD2 revision 2 motherboard(only revision 2 will run Core 2 Duo) Intel E6550 Core 2 Duo. Add 2-3 GBs of Corsair Value Select ram. 320GB WD hard drive and an 8500GT video card. Samsung or Viewsonic 19 inch flat panel monitor. I like the NEC(now Sony) burners but theres a lot of nice ones out. I run 64bit Ultimate on my Vista gaming rig but that would probably be overkill for an internet machine. Home Premium has Aero and the nice media center stuff and should work fine. Althou you could buy an already built PC for less it wouldn't be the same as building one yourself for your mom plus, without proprietory software dogging the system that custom build will perform better too. I'm in the biz and my mom and 2 kids all have my puters.
2007-12-12 04:29:00 · answer #2 · answered by s j 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, first let's straiten one thing out: the first rule of ecconomics...
You can have cheap, or your can have good. You can't have both at the same time.
Now that that's out of the way...
You are going to need a motherboard with a dual-core AT LEAST if you wanna run Vista on it. You're also gonna need a TON of RAM if you don't want it to lag (at LEAST 3 gigs, no joke) because Vista is still buggy and takes up a LOTTA RAM. I'd also suggest getting the service pack for Vista that Microsoft is releasing in a few weeks.
Beyond that? Not much else other than a decent video & sound card, a good modem/Ethernet card, and a monitor.
Oh, and if YOU are going to be the person putting it together and if you DON'T know how to do it SAFELY, hire somebody to do it for you. I'd rather not see another person get electrocuted accidentally and wind up as another statistic.
2007-12-12 04:10:48 · answer #3 · answered by Roahn 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go to http://www.pricewatch.com
You will be amazed at the low prices. You can probably build her a very nice, complete computer for well under US$200.00.
Even if you don't want to build one up from the component level, look under the "Computers/Servers" category, and check out Barebones and PC-Windows subcategories for some of the lowest possible prices.
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2007-12-12 04:05:08 · answer #4 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-10 20:50:32 · answer #5 · answered by merryman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋