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Building a VERY tight budget rig for a buddy.
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So my friend Michael has a 2.7GHz Celeron, 512Mb Ram, GeForce FX 5200. Yeah... I know. So I need to build him a decent rig that he can use until he starts college this August.
So here I go for his starter build: Parts I'm giving him that I have in stock: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ ATX Mid Tower Case 1Gb (x2 512Mb) DDR2 800 GeForce 7300GT 512Mb (from my sig) Parts we are using from his rig: 16x DVD Rom Drive DVD-RW Drive Wired Keyboard Optical Mouse 17" CRT Monitor Parts we need to get: HDD: Good SATA hard drive under $50 MOBO: CHEAP AM2 motherboard that supports the 1000MHz H/T 4200+ OS: Some version of 32-bit windows that will work best with this rig PSU: Something to power a 7300GT that won't konk out Budget set at $300 for all of these parts. So, what would be the best choices here?
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That is illegal.
EDIT: Also, he is going to work for the FBI, and I am getting a degree in Criminal Justice. We try to uphold the law as much as possible.
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HDD 50$ - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136098
PSU 40$ - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817104953 (Removes as per the TOS) Someone else reccomend a mobo, im clueless about AMD
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Is it now? According to what law? As far as I know, only the person distributing can legally be held accountable. Think of it this way: it wouldn't be illegal for you to be given a stolen cd; it's only illegal for the person to steal it. It is against forum rules to talk about doing such things though.... Myself, I never download copywritten material.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131325 - Mobo
__________________You could always get a cheaper Micro ATX Mobo to save some money.
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Hackintosh FTW!
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Grab a 780G motherboard and a WD 320GB AAKS drive, it is $55 and if you can spare $5 you can get the 640GB AAKS model, they are some of the fastest single drives besides Raptors on the market
Any PSU will power a 7300GT, they are not performers at all TBH, he might be better off with the integrated GFX on the 780G
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Windows XP. a 80GB or 160GB Western digital cavier hard drive, this mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128373 any 450w or 500w power supply
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Hackintosh FTW!
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Also, depending on when he is going to college or has more money just set him up with the Windows 7 Beta, its good for over 5 more months and would be fine albeit a bit slower on that rig. Also, why not grab another 1GB of ram, it would only cost $10 but be a whole lot better on XP or Vista
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Why do that, when I can just give him my 7300GT that I am taking out to get a 4xxx series Radeon.
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