Any better PCs in the 450$-550$ price range than this?

[FxKirby]

My PC blew up last week and I thought getting a new one instead of repairing the old one (which is 4 years old).
After a bit of research, I found this.
The small HDDs don't really matter since I still have my 500GB drive.

I don't have much to spend... Need to save money for college and will buy a laptop this summer.

Any advice? Thanks in advance.

[FxKirby]

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[terrybear]

I just build this box on ncix for a possibility of a friend whom needs 1 for herself & her daughter:

AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition Dual Core Processor Socket AM2+ 2.7GHZ 3MB 65NM 95W Retail Box $85.99

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H AMD780G mATX AM2+/AM3 PCI-E DDR2 SATA2 Video Sound GBLAN HDMI Motherboard $98.99

OCZ XTC Platinum Edition PC2-8500 DDR2 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1066 CL5-5-5-18 Dual Channel EPP Memory Kit $84.99

Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB 7200RPM 32MB Dual Proc 3.5IN SATA Hard Drive OEM 5YR Mfg Warranty $89.98

LG GH22NS30 Black DVD+RW 22X8X16 DVD-RW 22X6X16 DL 16X/12X 2MB SATA OEM $27.98

Antec Sonata III Black ATX 16IN Mid Tower Quiet Case 3X5.25 2X3.5 4X3.5IN 500W 120MM Fan $157.10

YOUR TOTAL $545.03

this could be probly price matched down some to. order it with the $10 ncix card & they will ship it all free grounds right now

[flyz]

I just build this box on ncix for a possibility of a friend whom needs 1 for herself & her daughter:

AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition Dual Core Processor Socket AM2+ 2.7GHZ 3MB 65NM 95W Retail Box $85.99

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H AMD780G mATX AM2+/AM3 PCI-E DDR2 SATA2 Video Sound GBLAN HDMI Motherboard $98.99

OCZ XTC Platinum Edition PC2-8500 DDR2 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1066 CL5-5-5-18 Dual Channel EPP Memory Kit $84.99

Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB 7200RPM 32MB Dual Proc 3.5IN SATA Hard Drive OEM 5YR Mfg Warranty $89.98

LG GH22NS30 Black DVD+RW 22X8X16 DVD-RW 22X6X16 DL 16X/12X 2MB SATA OEM $27.98

Antec Sonata III Black ATX 16IN Mid Tower Quiet Case 3X5.25 2X3.5 4X3.5IN 500W 120MM Fan $157.10

YOUR TOTAL $545.03

this could be probly price matched down some to. order it with the $10 ncix card & they will ship it all free grounds right now

+1, cept without the hard drive since OP has one to use.
Could probably reuse the old case and optical drive as well, just find a 500w psu and it should be good. That'll save some money.

[FxKirby]

Oooh thanks! The memory kit is 139.99$ now though. I'll get the
Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X4096-6400C5 4GB DDR2 2X2GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800 CL 5-5-5-18 240PIN Memory Kit for 59.86$ instead.
And yeah I could salvage the old DVD drive but I'll buy a new case and donate the old comp for family usage.
I'll throw in a video card (Radeon HD 4xxx?) since this PC will mainly be used for gaming and some photo editing. Maybe the
ASUS ATI Radeon HD4670 512M PCIE2.0 DDR3 2X DVI TV-OUT Retail?

[terrybear]

Oooh thanks! The memory kit is 139.99$ now though. I'll get the
Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X4096-6400C5 4GB DDR2 2X2GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800 CL 5-5-5-18 240PIN Memory Kit for 59.86$ instead.
And yeah I could salvage the old DVD drive but I'll buy a new case and donate the old comp for family usage.
I'll throw in a video card (Radeon HD 4xxx?) since this PC will mainly be used for gaming and some photo editing. Maybe the
ASUS ATI Radeon HD4670 512M PCIE2.0 DDR3 2X DVI TV-OUT Retail?

the kit was that price when I put that out from my cart, why would ya buy corsair when ya gotta rma it to the us ??

Asus videocard ewwwwwwwwwwww no !!!

[Evil Baby]

If I were you OP I'd stay far far away from anything ECS branded. IMO they are garbage brand.

edit: not to mention the seller does not specify which brand the PSU is nor the case so they are probably both garbage quality

[terrybear]

If I were you OP I'd stay far far away from anything ECS branded. IMO they are garbage brand.

edit: not to mention the seller does not specify which brand the PSU is nor the case so they are probably both garbage quality

I've owned ECS & there NOT garbage, BUT the motherboard has a nforce chipset on it which is garbage

[Evil Baby]

I've owned ECS & there NOT garbage, BUT the motherboard has a nforce chipset on it which is garbage

both my laptop and my friends laptop motherboards died within a year of use. Also one of his desktops died.

Perhaps we've(my friend and I) just had bad luck.

Also to the OP, I realized the machine you linked to doesn't come with an OS. That's something you should be condsidering as it will cost you extra to buy a legal copy of Windows if that's the way you plan on going.

[habsfan08]

get those rams

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...t&promoid=1065


and this video card

http://ncix.com/products/?sku=34124&...cture=Gigabyte

[infamouskid]

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/s...0&postcount=17


this is pretty good. u can save some dough and use the saved cash to upgrade it a bit.

[FxKirby]

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/s...0&postcount=17


this is pretty good. u can save some dough and use the saved cash to upgrade it a bit.

Yeah that is a good comp. But the PSU is just meh (220W). I think I'll get that. However it's in store purchase only (I live in Montreal) and it's out of stock. I could get someone to buy it for me but anyone knows if CC will restock that one?

[dstefan]

I'm pretty sure you can get a much better deal than that.... especially when they used ECS?? ack I always have bad luck with that brand.

[terrybear]

I can tell ya the worst brand of motherboards that got made, the Tomato branded ones, those things made the ECS boards look like DFI boards

[tragd]

why not just get a dell