Sender: |
|
Date: |
Thu, 4 May 2006 13:24:28 -0400 |
Reply-To: |
|
Subject: |
|
MIME-Version: |
1.0 |
Content-Transfer-Encoding: |
quoted-printable |
In-Reply-To: |
|
Content-Type: |
text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" |
From: |
|
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Buy a Low end Dell such as
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/dimen_1100?c=us&cs=04
&l=en&s=bsd
Current delivered price $300 including Microsoft XP Home. You were planning
on buying an operating system weren't you?
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peetie Wheatstraw
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:27 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Choice of cpu and Mboard for new build
Re: Choice of cpu and Mboard for new build
I will soon build a lo-end pc for home. Use will be mostly garden-
variety: browser, word processing, Email, etc. A tiny bit of number-
crunching with a programming language. No gaming, video editing or
anything extra-demanding.
I haven't built a pc in about 5 years. Lots of things have changed ...
I've picked up a little Antec case with 350w power supply. Major
components i.e. motherboard and cpu have yet to be chosen. Budget
is very, very tight.
Possibility #1:
Intel Celeron D 310 Prescott 2.13Ghz/FSB533 Socket 478 Retail $45.50
Retail means the heatsink/fan is included.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819112208
MSI PM8M-V Socket 478 VIA P4M800 Micro ATX Retail $44
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130519
AGP 4X/8X or use built-in graphics. 2 DDR memory slots.
Realtek 10.100BT LAN chip. The Newegg reviews show only 3% gave it
a poor or very poor rating.
Possibility #2:
http://www.ascendtech.us/itemdesc.asp?ic=DTMBMID2C28NOK
INTEL D865GV S.478 W/CELERON D335 2.8GHZ $125.99
At present, I hope to use existing IDE (PATA) hard drives on the new
system, and
need 2 IDE channels. No SATA for the foreseeable future.
Both cpu's have Prescott core? Any reason to avoid Prescott?
I assume Newegg is a safe vendor. Anyone have experience with
Ascendtech?
Circuit City has Kingston 512MB PC3200/2700/2100 DDR SDRAM Desktop Memory
on sale for $20 (after rebate). I'm thinking 2 of those ...
Anybody evaluated Socket 478 P4 vs. Celeron for price/performance?
Any/all help/ideas/considerations would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Peetie
Visit our website regularly for FAQs,
articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more
http://freepctech.com
Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to
Digest mode - visit our web site:
http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml
|
|
|