My uncle was supposed to buy a relatively cheap but decent enough home computer system. Here’s what I should have given him.
Short explanation on my choices:
- Processor – good enough starting chip; not too expensive but good enough to handle usual load
- Motherboard – good board with plenty of upgrade opportunities; i’m thinking of upgrading to a quad-core if budget permits
- Memory – i sort of splurged on this one; haven’t really tried a corsair xms but i like the extra it placed aesthetics
- Video card – good enough budget VC;
- Optical drive – i just picked the one on the top of the pricelist; they’re pretty inexpensive nowadays
- Hard Drive – i have a lot of hard disks lying around (250GB, 320GB, 500GB,..) so I just picked a starter disk
- Power Supply – really needed to replace the stock power supply that usually comes with the casing
- Case/Keyboard/Mouse – cases are usually store options; Logitech Internet Pro for keyboard and mouse
- LCD Monitor – this was supposed to be samsung but i’m not really a fan of beveled LCDs
- UPS – there have been a lot of power interruptions lately so better be safe than sorry
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