...for someone who is a relative of one of the owners of the pizza business. He needs two PCs that he will buy off of me once I finish building them.
Here are the answers to the questions (as applicable to him):
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Mainly for Web surfing and listing multiple items on auction sites
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
N/A. Most of the parts had already been purchased. If purchasing a case and an optical drive, about $100.
3) Where do you live?
Chicagoland area
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. The word "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.
One case, possibly an optical drive
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
PC #1 (almost completed, except for a few software tweaks):
Intel i3-2100
4 GB Patriot DDR3-1333 RAM
1TB Seagate 7200.12 SATA drive
SATA DVD burner
(Onboard Intel HD 2000 graphics)
Intel DH61CR motherboard
Cooler Master Elite 341 case (pulled from my auxiliary editing system)
Antec EarthWatts EA-380D Green PSU
PC #2:
Intel i7-920
6GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 C7 RAM
1TB Seagate 7200.12 SATA drive
512MB GeForce GT 240
Intel DX58SO motherboard
Antec EarthWatts EA-650 PSU
6) Will you be overclocking?
No
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
Unknown
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
One PC already built. I just need a case and an optical drive on the second PC. Will be purchasing those last two parts tomorrow.
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? etc.
N/A. Already have the motherboards.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?
Windows 7 64-bit
PC #1 listed above shows how one can get a $410 complete self-built PC without it being totally crappy. (Sure, the H61 chipset is a stripped-down version of the H67 chipset that allegedly did not suffer the same problems with SATA 3.0 Gbps reliability as its bigger brothers in their B2 stepping. But for the lower price, I can't complain.) Also, it was the very first time I have ever gotten my hands on a self-built system with an IGP; my previous builds have always had discrete GPUs. Though I would have loved to get a quad-core CPU, budget constraints precluded this (I don't really trust AMD quad-core CPUs that may perform slower than this dual-core, quad-threaded CPU). The hard drives in both systems are carryovers from my previous builds.
PC #2 consists largely of parts left over from my now-dismantled auxiliary editing PC.
I just want to ask Danny and others if I made the right call.
Here are the answers to the questions (as applicable to him):
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Mainly for Web surfing and listing multiple items on auction sites
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
N/A. Most of the parts had already been purchased. If purchasing a case and an optical drive, about $100.
3) Where do you live?
Chicagoland area
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. The word "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.
One case, possibly an optical drive
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
PC #1 (almost completed, except for a few software tweaks):
Intel i3-2100
4 GB Patriot DDR3-1333 RAM
1TB Seagate 7200.12 SATA drive
SATA DVD burner
(Onboard Intel HD 2000 graphics)
Intel DH61CR motherboard
Cooler Master Elite 341 case (pulled from my auxiliary editing system)
Antec EarthWatts EA-380D Green PSU
PC #2:
Intel i7-920
6GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 C7 RAM
1TB Seagate 7200.12 SATA drive
512MB GeForce GT 240
Intel DX58SO motherboard
Antec EarthWatts EA-650 PSU
6) Will you be overclocking?
No
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
Unknown
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
One PC already built. I just need a case and an optical drive on the second PC. Will be purchasing those last two parts tomorrow.
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? etc.
N/A. Already have the motherboards.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?
Windows 7 64-bit
PC #1 listed above shows how one can get a $410 complete self-built PC without it being totally crappy. (Sure, the H61 chipset is a stripped-down version of the H67 chipset that allegedly did not suffer the same problems with SATA 3.0 Gbps reliability as its bigger brothers in their B2 stepping. But for the lower price, I can't complain.) Also, it was the very first time I have ever gotten my hands on a self-built system with an IGP; my previous builds have always had discrete GPUs. Though I would have loved to get a quad-core CPU, budget constraints precluded this (I don't really trust AMD quad-core CPUs that may perform slower than this dual-core, quad-threaded CPU). The hard drives in both systems are carryovers from my previous builds.
PC #2 consists largely of parts left over from my now-dismantled auxiliary editing PC.
I just want to ask Danny and others if I made the right call.
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