Advice for low cost build needed

[dazed554]

I need to do a build for my grandma. She doesn't need anything fancy since she mostly uses it for web browsing and email. It needs to be in the range of $500 - $600. I'm not sure what processor to choose. I was thinking possibly an E5200. How do these compare to AMD's offerings in the same price range? what about a motherboard? I have haven't dealt with Intel too much in the past.

edit: I forgot to mention a cheap monitor(~100$) needs to be included in the price

[Homeless]

If it's only for web browsing, I would get an athlon 64 or an e1200. 500-600 for web browsing is about twice the budget you need for a simple computer

[dazed554]

I want to future proof it as much as possible, she was upset when her 5 year old computer started to slow down a bit.

[BarbaricSoul]

this will be plenty for Grandma's web browsing, just get her to pick out a case for it all to go into.

https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/M...px?ID=14488367

[Thrackan]

What OS are you going to run on it? Anything else besides web browsing and email?
Can you post specs of her 5-year-old system?

[Binge]

Originally Posted by dazed554

I want to future proof it as much as possible, she was upset when her 5 year old computer started to slow down a bit.

Go Phenom II. The mobo can be cheap, the cpu will run cool, and you'll still use DDR2.

[Darren]

Originally Posted by dazed554

I need to do a build for my grandma. She doesn't need anything fancy since she mostly uses it for web browsing and email. It needs to be in the range of $500 - $600. I'm not sure what processor to choose. I was thinking possibly an E5200. How do these compare to AMD's offerings in the same price range? what about a motherboard? I have haven't dealt with Intel too much in the past.

edit: I forgot to mention a cheap monitor(~100$) needs to be included in the price

The E5200 is about equivalent to the Athlon 5800+ X2

Edit:

Give your grandma your current CPU and motherboard and put together a cheap Phenom II 940 build for yourself


Edit 2:

Originally Posted by spearman914

I don’t think it will because the e5200 can beat a X2 7750 at stock

Well its true

The e5200 is only good when overclocked, at stock it isn't that fast, believe me.

The X2 7750 isn't that fast either.

[spearman914]

Originally Posted by Darren

The E5200 is about equivalent to the Athlon 5800+ X2

Edit:

Give your grandma your current CPU and motherboard and put together a cheap Phenom II 940 build for yourself

I don’t think it will because the e5200 can beat a X2 7750 at stock