Building for my friend

The Lark · 02-05-2009, 08:22 AM

My friend wants a new PC and I've advised him to let me choose the parts instead of just buying it from some random PC salesmen who will probably give him a mobo with on-board graphics or something.

I'm thinking in terms of budget, I get him a cheap SHAW tornado case with power supply, but we chuck the PSU for something decent like a Seasonic PSR 550+. The case is a bit cheap and rattly but the price is right.

Then I want to put in a 3ghz E8400 on a P5Q-SE mobo. I doubt he'll need the overlocking features on the other P5Q boards since he's mostly PC illiterate.

2 sticks of 1gig DDR800 Kingston Ram and I'll throw in my old 7950gt on lend as a video card until he can afford to buy something more fitting like a 9800gtx.

Thoughts?

**linderman** · 02-05-2009, 11:42 AM

dont over look mwave.com / click refurbished / click motherboards and power supplies .............

save some cash in there .....!

02-05-2009, 08:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
The Lark Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 46 OS: xp	Building for my friend My friend wants a new PC and I've advised him to let me choose the parts instead of just buying it from some random PC salesmen who will probably give him a mobo with on-board graphics or something. I'm thinking in terms of budget, I get him a cheap SHAW tornado case with power supply, but we chuck the PSU for something decent like a Seasonic PSR 550+. The case is a bit cheap and rattly but the price is right. Then I want to put in a 3ghz E8400 on a P5Q-SE mobo. I doubt he'll need the overlocking features on the other P5Q boards since he's mostly PC illiterate. 2 sticks of 1gig DDR800 Kingston Ram and I'll throw in my old 7950gt on lend as a video card until he can afford to buy something more fitting like a 9800gtx. Thoughts?

02-05-2009, 11:42 AM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,437 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: Building for my friend dont over look mwave.com / click refurbished / click motherboards and power supplies ............. save some cash in there .....! __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial