Looking For Recommendations For Replacment Basic PC

[iamloco724]

my family is looking for a replacement of there general pc we are replacing an ibm we got for free years ago

it will just be used for web surfing.facebook games,email and to manage checkbook with quicken it also serves as the home base for our home network its connected to our router and printer

we are on a fixed budget thought the absolute max would be 400 dollars of course would like to spend as little as possible would like to be able to get a monitor with this also but know that might be stretching it

overall just want something thats going to be reliable and thats atleast is an upgrade in overall performance and would prefer something that came with a version of windows xp

heres the specs of the pc we want to replace

Processor
1.50 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Not hyper-threaded

System Model
IBM 635013U
System Serial Number: 23G1877
Asset Tag: Tag 5678901234567890
Enclosure Type: Mini-Tower

Main Circuit Board
Board: IBM MARLIN
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: IBM 20KT46AUS 06/04/2004

Drives
20.41 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity

TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R1102 [Optical drive]


Memory Modules
640 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'J6J1' has 256 MB
Slot 'J6J2' has 256 MB
Slot 'J7J1' has 128 MB



Display
NVIDIA Vanta (IBM) [Display adapter]
NEC AccuSync 70 [Monitor] (16.1"vis, s/n 1903342TA, September 2001)


so if you can post up links of your recommendations it would be greatly appreciated

 

[mattk1045]

WOW!!!! OLD PC. You could get a desktop for approx $300 or so that would blow that thing out of the water. Just look at your local best buy type store in your area. Building your own at that price and with the components you need probably won't happen. Again nothing is impossible but it might take some serious deal hunting and of course reusing the monitor, keyboard, and mouse you already have

 

[Trotter]

Honestly, this will be plenty for that:
Walmart.com: eMachines ET1331G-07w Desktop PC with AMD Athlon II X2 Dual-Core Processor and Windows 7 Home Premium: Computers
$398.00

Considering Windows 7 would set you back $100 just by itself this becomes a great deal. Dual core, 4GB RAM, 640GB hard drive, Win7 Home Premium 64-bit. The 6150 graphics are actually decent; my mother-in-law's computer has them and she plays a lot of casual games.

 

[Abstract Hero]

That's a great deal for the money trotter almost puts my little emachine to shame.... ok maybe a little

 

[iPROTechman]

I'd go with what Trotter reccomends.

 

[mattk1045]

i'd go with what he recommends minus the Walmart part.

 

[Trotter]

Just saw this in my daily ResellerRatings deal email.

Newegg.com - eMachines EL1352-03 Athlon II X2 240(2.8GHz) 4GB DDR3 500GB NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
$349.88 w/free shipping

It's a slimline and I don't see anything about it having a PCI-E slot, so it may not be graphically upgradeable. That shouldn't be a problem in this situation, though.