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I'm buying a new computer for the church I works at... i don't want it to play games, i dont want to overclock it, i dont need alot of stuff, and gotta keep it under 500

http://inosis.sytes.net/uploads/newcomp.htm

We use a laptop now and its a AMD athlon xp at 900 and some odd MHz with 192MB of ram, and the ram runs out alot...

remember, this isnt for games!! or overclocking!!!

 

[ShawnMcGrail]

why not a just a cheap Emachines system? Theres ones here in canada for only $399 for the whole setup, which is like $299 in U.S right?

 

[YiffyGriffy]

get a Sempron or Celeron with 512MB of memory and a PCI graphics card, how hard can that be?

 

[andy8125]

GOOD enough and beats Dell lol

 

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a sempron is the same as an Athlon Xp pretty much, do you know if it will work with the motherboard I picked out? I'm pretty sure they should be able to work with any right?

edit: i checked out Emachines and you have to get a rebate, and it comes with 256MB and then I'll have to share that with the intel extreme, then I'll have 192 available, and I'm back to where I started.

 

[gibant1]

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Originally Posted by shawnmcgrail why not a just a cheap Emachines system? Theres ones here in canada for only $399 for the whole setup, which is like $299 in U.S right?

Oh my God, I would have bet thousands that no one would EVER sugest buying an E-machine, but there you go!

 

[YiffyGriffy]

Sempron is to replace the Duron, it's Socket A so I would assume it would fit a Socket A board

 

[ThE_GeNeRaL]

yep they can work just not the sempron 3100+ cause it socket 754

 

[ShawnMcGrail]

ya well, its supposed to replace a laptop right? and you just want a comp to do ordinary tasks, so just buy a pre-built system that comes with monitor and all that stuff? and if its really cheap just buy another stick of value ram off of ebay? lol

 

[Denmor]

and most boards probably have a BIOS update out that allows them to recognize Semprons if they didnt from the Get Go.

 

[blob]

well we have a 21" monitor already, and I'll need two VGA ports... (i have a DVI-2-VGA conv)

 

[ShawnMcGrail]

ya, well then buy a 5200 with dual VGA out, well then it would be better to just buy items seperate then go pre-built, I retract my previous statement about the pre-built... lol

 

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I have a DVI to VGA converter so it doesnt matter to me, and that card was the cheapest 5200 i saw...