Do not buy an OEM dvd drive if there is any chance she wants to actually watch DVDs on it, get a retail drive that comes with a proper codec. Any reason you're going with AMD? I just swapped out my old old amd based HTPC setup for an intel one, at the same price point that you're looking at ($161 for ram, mobo and CPU,…
hah, well she's had a lot of problems with laptops dying on her so she said she wanted a desktop again. So I was surprised when she called last night about my opinion on a Lenovo laptop - I've heard that people like them, they purchased the Thinkpad line from IBM after I left the computer repair business so I don't have…
I haven't had to build an affordable computer for a casual user in about 8 years so help me out. MOBO ASUS M4N68T-M $54.99 CPU AMD Athlon II X2 250 $61.99 RAM G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 $27.99 after $5 instant rebate cheapest I could find and G.Skill is decent, right? CASE Rosewill ATX Mid Tower Case…