A PC AFFORDABLE TO EVERYONE

[Vivek bhardwaj]

MY DEAR FRIENDS I WANT YOU TO GIVE YOUR SUGGESTIONS ON A BASIC PC WHICH CAN DO BASIC WORKS LIKE COMPILING PROGRAMS, RUNNING OFFICE SOFTWARE, INTERNET BROWSING, e-MAIL etc

[Keith Sebastian]

How low do you wanna go? What's your max budget?

-Keith

[mohit]

AMD SEMPRON 2400/2800 +
ASUS A7N8X-VM-400 (Good onboard grafix that will let u play old games also)
256 MB DDR 400
LITEON CD-RW
80 GB SEAGATE BARRACUDA
15" SAMSUNG/LG CRT
ANY GOOD CABINET WITH 300W SMPS
LOGITECH VALUE OPTICAL MOUSE/MM KEYBOARD
2.1 SPEAKERS (if needed)

[mail2and]

make the PSU atleast 350W which can be used even if you plan to buy more components

You could also go in for 512 mb ram.. the difference between the price of 256 and 512 is very negligible but the difference in performance is huge....

[Charley]

Originally Posted by Keith Sebastian

How low do you wanna go? What's your max budget?

-Keith

Affordable one which has all the basic stuff........

[mail2and]

Originally Posted by achacko@dataone.in

Affordable one which has all the basic stuff........

Affordable is a relative term as much as money is a relative means of exchange. For Bill gates, anything is affordable. For us, the definition of affordable is a bit different.

Basic laws of economics

[aadipa]

Originally Posted by Vivek bhardwaj

COMPILING PROGRAMS, RUNNING OFFICE SOFTWARE, INTERNET BROWSING, e-MAIL etc

How about 1GHz~1.4GHz C3 based machine?

[icecoolz]

Originally Posted by aadipa

How about 1GHz~1.4GHz C3 based machine?

C3 ? I didnt know those were out

[mail2and]

Originally Posted by aadipa

How about 1GHz~1.4GHz C3 based machine?

I guess p3 400 mhz wud be better

[aadipa]

Originally Posted by icecoolz

C3 ? I didnt know those were out

Have a look

[Charley]

Originally Posted by mail2and

Basic laws of economics

Reminds me of not attending tutoring classes which reduced my aggregate.

[Delta]

Originally Posted by mail2and

I guess p3 400 mhz wud be better

I hav C3 733 MHz. One problem is that i can't encode videos with gordian knot. It requires Pentium PRO Instruction Set.

[sidewinder]

c3 2000+???? i recently saw the ads.it should be good for ur needs

[Mahesh Babu]

Processor : AMD sempron 2200+ = Rs 2300
MotherBoard : Gigabyte GA7VM400-M = Rs 2100
Ram : 256 MB ddr 333 fsb = Rs 1100
Harddisk :80 GB seagate = Rs 2600
Monitor : LG/SAMSUNG 15" = Rs 4700
Cdrom : sony 52x = Rs 650
Cabinet : Zebronics 350W = Rs 1000
Keyboard : Adcom (multimedia) = Rs 200
Mouse : Adcom (optical) = Rs 150
Speakers : Mercury 350w - 2.0 = Rs 170

Total = Rs 14,970

The Motherbaord has S3 Unichrome onboard Graphics and I will post all the supported games with this onboard graphics card.

[Mahesh Babu]

U can play the below games with the above config .U can play all the games released before 2003 at low-medium settings.The onboard Graphics card does not support Hardware-T&L which is required for latest games.

Diablo 2 Lod
Warcraft 3 Frozen throne
The Sims 2 (must meet the cpu and ram requirments for this one to do well and drive spacee.)
GTA 3
GTA VICE CITY
Warcraft 3
Starcraft
Starcraft Broodwar
The Sims original with all expansion packs
Sacred
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR GOLF 2004
MVP Baseball 2003
Street Legal
Zoo Tycoon
rise of nation with thrones and patriots expansion pack
medal of honor allied assualt
medal of honor allied assualt :spearhead
nfs6 hot persuit
desert storm
return to castel of wolfenstein
First Encounter
No One Lives Forever
Railroad Tycoon 3
Cricket 2002,2004
Brian Lara Cricket 99
All strategy games
Crazy Taxi 2 ,3
Blood 2 The Chosen (Kind of slow frame rate, no matter low detail or full, its the same)
Driver for PC
Sports Cars GT
Half Life
Spiderman (the one that also was on PSX)
Italian Job
Revolt R/C Racing simulation
Unreal Tournament 2003
Max Payne 2
Ghost recon
Act of War: Direct Action
Commandos 2
Painkiller
Soldier of fortune

[Mahesh Babu]

If u want to play all the latest games at low-medium settings get the following mentioned motherbaord which has built-in Geforce 4 graphics.

Motherboard : MSI K7N2GM2-LSR which has onboard Geforce 4 MX and TV-Out. Also features :

Features :
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1. AGP 8x slot.
2. Onboard Geforce 4 MX 440
3. Supports 64bit DDR RAM dual channel upto 333Mhz upto 2GB
4. Onboard Gigabit LAN
5. Onboard SATA @ 150gbps
6. Onboard 5.1 soundcard
7. NV RAID
8. USB 2.0 compatible
9. Onboard TV-out facility
10. Nvidia nForce2 chipset

Price : 3200Rs

It will be best for games and value for money

But the availability of this motherbaord is little difficult.

[Zaysen]

Originally Posted by Vivek bhardwaj

MY DEAR FRIENDS I WANT YOU TO GIVE YOUR SUGGESTIONS ON A BASIC PC WHICH CAN DO BASIC WORKS LIKE COMPILING PROGRAMS, RUNNING OFFICE SOFTWARE, INTERNET BROWSING, e-MAIL etc

Assembled The Following on August 16th 2005 All Prices Nehru Place New Delhi as on this Date.

Intel Celeron 2.53 Ghz Rs 3750.00 socket 478 533 mhz fsb
Intel genuine d865gbf Mother Board rs 4700/-
Transcend DDR 400 Mhz 512 Mb Ram 256*2 Rs 3000/-
XFX NVidia geforce 4 Mx 4000 AGP Card Rs 1690/-
Pixel View TV TUner Card Internal 1500/-
Asus DVD Rom Drive Rs 1400/-
Samsung CD RW Rs 1300
Cabinet Navtech Temperature Series HT 2688 B 4 Fans Type Rs 1000/-
Without Original Power Supply
Power Supply Antec Smart Power 400 Watts Rs 3500/-
D Link Internal Modem 56.60 Kbps Rs 450/-
TVS Key Board 1100/-
Logitech Scroll Mouse 250/-
Microtek Monitor 17" 4370 OSD Rs 5000/-
microtek ups 600 va max power Rs 2000/-

The Above Configuration can satisfy the most of basic pc users neds but not high end gaming in which i do not believe.You Can Change the Celeron Processor to a P4 2.40 Ghz For Rs 6350/- But The Factor of Heat Will also Increase.Please Note that a TV Tuner Inside a PC Can be used only for short time and not as a complete replacement as a tv as in my own pc while watching tv in pixel view tuner card in Windows Me Upon Changing the Channel The OS Got Jammed and Upon Hot Restart the Mother Boards Main Chipset 845 got burnt.hence please use TV in a PC Judiciously.