Friend Needs Your Help For X-Mas

[peter8d9]

Hey, a friend of mine was looking to pick this up. I know there's plenty out there for better bang for his buck. Any suggestions? Here's what he's got:

i was thinkin about something like this http://www.cyberpowersystem.com/system/sp2.asp?v=d

all the basic stuff but add this stuff

1024 MB (512MBx2) PC3200 400MHz Dual Channel DDR MEMORY(Corsair Value Select)[+60]


no hard drive.. i can get one cheaper with more space.. Seagate 250GB 7200RPM 8MB Buffer Hard Drive $69.99


at some other place. X2Gen MG19MY 19-inch LCD Monitor $199.99

Prolly will find better speakers somewhere else

this is it

CASE : NZXT Nemesis Metal Mid-Tower Case 400W W/ side-panel Window (BLACK COLOR)
CPU : (939-pin) AMD ATHLON™64 3000+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology
MOTHERBOARD : (Sckt939)MSI K8N NEO4-F nForce4 Chipset SATA Raid PCI-E w/GbLAN, USB2.0, &7.1Audio
MEMORY : 512 MB PC3200 400MHz DDR MEMORY (Corsair Value Select)
VIDEO CARD : NVIDIA Geforce 6200 Graphics with TurboCache supporting 256MB 16X PCI Express VIDEO CARD
VIDEO CARD 2 : NONE
MONITOR & LCD : NONE
HARD DRIVE : NONE
Hard Drive 2 : NONE
Optical Drive : COMBO DRIVE (16X DVD-ROM & 52x32x52 CD-RW) (BEIGE COLOR)
Optical Drive 2 : NONE
SOUND : HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
Price: $494.00

[peter8d9]

given the ol'heave ho up to the top!

[blue60007]

Toss the power supply in the case...that one is crap.

If this is going to be a gaming machine, you'll want a much better video card. At least one that does not use TurboCache as it hogs up system (main) RAM.

If you are going to be adding to this and replacing some things, why not just buy everything from newegg or somewhere similar?

[peter8d9]

Originally Posted by blue60007 Toss the power supply in the case...that one is crap. If this is going to be a gaming machine, you'll want a much better video card. At least one that does not use TurboCache as it hogs up system (main) RAM. If you are going to be adding to this and replacing some things, why not just buy everything from newegg or somewhere similar?

Those were my thoughts. He's a friend from a car forum I'm on. I told him his best bet was just buying everything from newegg (what I did 2 years ago) but I'm not up to date on all the new hardware for computers no a days. I've still got my ATI 9600XT, AMD 2500+, 1 gig of 3200 Corsair Ram.