Cheap cheap build

You need to be specific.

What are you using the PC for? Gaming? Folding? Do you multitask a lot?

AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Processor $67.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103681

GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard $79.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128394

Crucial 2GB (2 x 1GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit Laptop Memory Model CT2KIT12864AC667 $45.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148086

If you can recycle everything else, you should be good.

you won't be able to do much with $200ish... it's best to just bare with your pc a little longer and save some more cash to buy better stuff

A build that I have made several times uses the DG31PR Intel mobo a E5200 cpu and now you have 80.00 left over for ram. No OC ability (because of the Intel Mobo) but I recieved a 5.8 Win 7 index score out of this setup. This is the cheapo desktop build that I provide people that just want to run apps like Word,browse,mail etc.

I use the Regor build personaly (but I have the M4A78T-E ASUS mobo which is DDR3) and it is much more future proof but I have more than 200.00 into it.

The DG31PR will accept Q6600 cpu's (I have that build also) with a cheapo 9400 GPU (the ASUS GPU is onboard) both have 4gb and run XP and I like both builds,they perform closely in the practical sense, but I don't have benchmark numbers for either. I have run both rigs on both XP and Win 7, with a better score on one of the Intel builds because of a better gpu. The 9400 rig did not get the 5.8 Win 7 score.