Mutant Corn
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How is his build not a budget machine? Just because it doesn't use old technology doesn't mean it isn't a budget build. Yeah, it's possible to build one for $250, but it will get "slow" pretty quickly, and probably require a motherboard/cpu/ram triple upgrade to get it up to speed again.If it's better to get the absolute best now and never settle then we'd all have rigs costing thousands of dollars, and there wouldn't be any budget machines... also it might be many years before the OP actually gets a computer at all.
...which is basically what we're trying to get him to do, right? AM3 and DDR3 is about as carefully planned as it gets. That system will take modern upgrades for quite a while. An older system will not.if you're low on money now, I still think that it's better to start out buying something to get yourself going, whilst carefully planning your purchase to make upgrades possible in the longer term.
He posted a budget of $400, and we got him a better system than what he was after for under $350. It's not even close to having the best parts in it...it'll be just enough to do what he wants. He's already said that he wants to edit videos and eventually play games...both cpu/gpu intensive tasks.What are you saying is usable? note that I'm posting from an old laptop, just a 1.8GHz single core pentium, with 1.5GB ram, and it's running windows 7 and all the applications that *I* want to run just fine...
why is there a need to immediately stick in the best and most expensive components?
there is a fine line of the budget dictating the build and the build dictating the budget...
BTW, TS, you can play games in ubuntu. It's called WINE:
http://appdb.winehq.org/index.php
The problem comes along if it's not an OK psu. Buying a low quality one is a big risk to take...What's the problem with buying a case that comes with an OK PSU, (assuming it's good enough for what he wants to run now), then upgrading the PSU at a later date?