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well my friend needs a new compuer and he told me he has a budget of around 1500$ cdn, this including monitor, speakers, Everything. He doesnt play computer games at all, he only games on his xbox. He uses his pc monstly for chatting, typing up his essays, and surfing the web. I picked all thid for him:

http://secure.ncix.com/pcbuilder/index. ... ormid=1000

is this a good buy for him?

edit: he really wanted an lcd screen. thts why i did 512mb ram.

Not bad, but I don't know about the Motherboard... Plus it is out of stock (so are the speakers). With $1500 and no games, would he at all be interested in a portable computer (a laptop). I don't personally like them, but if he needs to move around, then a laptop is the way to go. Other than that... I still don't like the motherboard. There is an Asus one for a bit more. If you had to stay under $1500, I would drop the floppy and get the Asus. I guess the high price is because it is canadian dollars...

Arquero

system is not bad for what your friend is gonna do. 512megs of ram is more than enough already if he uses his computer for chatting and surfing the web.

i dont know about the motherboard either or the chipset sis760. I recommending getting an nforceIII or something besides and sis chipset.

IMO, that monitor is overpriced. I would go over to a site like price grabber, or newegg and try to get one cheaper. I'm shopping for one too this week, I have a post in free clinic. I'm seeing a lot of 17 inch from $200 to $250ish- most have rebates. I found that one on Zip zoomfly- it's an analog monitor.

I would also rethink the mobo, see if you can find one with an NForce chip.

I'm not sure if Monarch ships to Canada, but it's worth a look.

Get a better motherboard and get a hard drive with 8mb of cache

i would go with a different mobo, maybe not a different brand as ive seen some good things about foxconn, but definitely a better chipset.

I still think alot of that is overkill this is what i got from newegg considering your friend is not gaming this rig should more then enough power.

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And you still have money left over with no crappy product what do you know..

doesn't sound like anyone here likes anything about that system. but i definitely agree with needing a different hard drive and the monitor is definitely overpriced; especially for 17in. your friend is better off going w/beardo's recommendations.

Yeah pretty decent!

thanks guys i try...

well my friend wanted at least 3.0ghz or amd equive and a amd64 if possible... he also wanted an lcd screen. These prices are all canadian and when compared to usd it is way overpriced but i checked other canadian sites and they seem to all be in that price range... my friend also said he already has windows xp so i did changes accorsing to everyones suggestions :

(all prices are in canadian dollar)


http://secure.ncix.com/pcbuilder/index. ... ormid=1000



what do u think?

BeardoMcWeirdo, i would have gotten my friend that but he wants to have an amd64, and when u get those parts anywhere in canada it goes well over 1500 ..

LINUX
Ditch the XP and use linux
save urself 190 bucks and the hassle of Windows
u get free openoffice.org which is better than MS office, free everythin, and if u wanna pay some 30 bucks u can get 24/7 live support via email/chat/irc/telephone (actualy IN AMERICA!) and some other stuff like hats

what?

Just another linux zealot in his holier than thou phase, in a few months he'll wise up, stop spazing out every chance he gets to tell you how great linux is, and will just shut up.

If he chose the parts for his friend then I doubt his friend really wants to learn to use Linux and all new programs (even though its as easy as fixing my car).

It sounds like his friend already uses Word/MSN messenger/ IE and probably won't want to use anything else.

No, i will wise up and config WINE to run Battlefield 2 and just totally get rid of Windo'hs all together.
And i dont spaz out, im saying, save freaking 300 bucks and use linux
god damn

I still think that he's better off buying the monitor locally on sale. I was out shopping yesterday, there are decent buys. Sony has these awesome LCD's coming out *drool*

Good choice on the board & processor- we have them here.



here we go again, "mom" has to tell you to chill? He said his friend already owns XP, so he won't even have to buy it.

ok so everything except the lcd is fine? ill look at some local stores for a nice lcd monitor.

oooo i see
k well when u bud gets out of college tell him tah try linux

ps: 500 bucks says ur College's main OS is linux
no joke
okay im done whoring myself out to linux now hehe

I'd take that bet, but I doubt you can afford to pay me the money.

None of the universities I attended ran linux as their primary OS.

Only one had linux on workstations available for student use, and that was only of 4 out of several hundred workstations.

Universities / colleges / businesses run enterprise level operating systems ... not linux.