My friend is trying to upgrade his PC and I'm helping him pick out the parts. We're trying to keep as close to or under $400 dollars if possible and the PC will be used for school and some light gaming. We plan on reusing a case, power supply, and DVD drive. We'll reinstall XP and upgrade to 7 later in the future.
I'd like to stick to 400 before rebates but if the performance is worth it, then I'm willing to stretch the budget a little bit. I absolutely do not want to go over 500 before rebates though. Thanks for the suggestions so far but is the Samsung or the Seagate HDD better?
I will soon be getting the same CPU/MOBO combo because I like the savings. You could obviously save some money with a dual core and or less ram. I'm not really in any position to be recommending builds, so I'll keep an eye on your thread and see what others think.
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