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boalic
07-07-2006, 04:01 AM
Alright after the smashing success with my personal build, with thanks to Ammo, its time to build one for the parents. Just picked the parts that I used but if other parts would work better than let me know. The PC will be used for just Internet, paying bills online and storing a ton of pictures. There wanting to reuse the monitor, speakers???, keyboard and mouse. This computer needs to be one that will last since there still rocking Win 98.

Case- Antec Solution SLK1650B Black Steel ATX Mini Tower Computer Case 350W Power Supply - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129150

mobo-ASUS P5LD2 Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 945P ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131538

CPU-Intel Pentium D 940 Presler 800MHz FSB 2 x 2MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Dual Core, EM64T Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116239

Pri Optical-LITE-ON Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache ATAPI/E-IDE 16X DVD±R DVD Burner - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106013

Sec Optical-LITE-ON Black 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM ATAPI/E-IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model SHD-16P1S - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106028

Floppy-SAMSUNG Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Model SFD321B/LBL1 - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16821103203

Ram-Kingston ValueRAM 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) System Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820144151

HDD-Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3300622AS 300GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148110

OS-Microsoft Windows XP Home With SP2 - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16837102059

Video Card-ASUS EAX550GE/TD/256M Radeon X550 256MB 128-bit DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121544

edit:added case, video card and changed memory

glc
07-07-2006, 04:20 AM
A 300 gig hard drive and 1 (yes, ONE) gig of ram is more than enough for that use. You forgot a video card, I'd recommend something like a Radeon X550 that does NOT have Hypermemory. Another option is a 945G chipset board with onboard video. A 940 is kind of overkill, save some money and get a 930. You also need a case - an Antec Sonata II is a nice conservative case and comes with a high quality power supply. You can drop the DVD-ROM drive to keep things simple - the burner will read and burn anything.