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Ash88
07-07-2006, 02:17 PM
I'm building this pc for my sister pretty soon, and the budget is pretty tight. Please help me if there seem to be any problems beacuse I'm sort of new to building pc's.

Cooler Master MicroATX mini tower case
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811119088

BIOSTAR TForce6100-939 Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813138264

XFX PVT72GWANG Geforce 7300GS 256MB PCI-E low profile video card
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814150128

FSP group 400W power supply
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817104953

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819103535

CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB)
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820145440

SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16821103116

Western Digital Caviar 250GB SATA hard drive
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822144701

Sony DVD-ROM drive
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16827101131

Samsung DVD burner w/ lightscribe
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16827151118

Windows XP home w/ SP2
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16837102059

and some fans
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811998127
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811999162

Please tell me what you think and if there's any core component that I'm forgetting (already have mouse, keyboard, monitor, and speakers)

Thank you!

glc
07-07-2006, 03:41 PM
If you are on a low budget and are getting a TForce motherboard anyway, why even bother with a video card? The onboard video is surprisingly capable. Only reason to upgrade from that is to play high tech games. Lose the Samsung burner, they are not very reliable - and you really don't need an additional rom drive - a DVD burner can read and burn anything. You also should not need additional fans.

Ash88
07-07-2006, 04:43 PM
ok thanks for your help it's just that the case comes with no aditional fans so i thought it might need some. Also, my sister wants to be able to play most semi-recent games (like a year-ish old) and i heard that any card is better than onboard video. Is that true? And i think light scribe is actually pretty much useless so i'm going w/ a regular NEC dvd burner instead.

Thanks again for you help

glc
07-07-2006, 10:29 PM
Depends on the games. Actually any games that run poorly on a TForce may require something stronger than a 7300GS to play them right anyway. Why not put it together with onboard, and if it doesn't do the job, you can add a card later? The only downside to the onboard is the sharing of system ram - and that 7300GS you picked is Turbocache anyway - and guess what? That shares system ram too.