Spec out a $700 PC?

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Well, a friend of a friend wants me to build him a new PC for college. He's looking to spend about $1,000 total so I figure spec out the hardware for $700, XP Pro, Office and AVG Free should bring it to about $1,000.

So... What would you guys suggest? Both from the AMD and Intel side of things.
 
what does he plan on doing with his PC, and does he need any peripherals (including mouse, keyboard, monitor)
 
This is what I came up with for a little over $1k:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 1066MHz FSB 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115004

Intel BOXDP965LTCK Socket T (LGA 775) Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813121035

Patriot 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit System Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820220095

eVGA 256-P2-N584-AR Geforce 7900GT KO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814130033

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3250620AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822148144

Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply 115/230 V UL, TUV, CB, FCC CLASS B, CUL - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817103931

Antec Performance I P180B Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel for durability through the majority of chassis 1.0mm cold rolled steel around the 4 x HDD area ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811129017
 
^i would suggest getting a cheaper mobo, maybe the gigabyte ds3 or asus p5nsli, that will save you almost $100 bucks which would be enough for him to upgrade his ram to ddr2 800mhz or to an E6600
 
well if he need something that cheap, I would go AMD cause there pricces are so low, well I am not looking this up, but for a cpu: amd 3500 venice (2.2ghz) 1gb ram, 200gig HD (WD caviear series is nice) GPU: well on the nvidia side I think you should be able to squeeze out a 7600gt. PSU: I would at least go with a 450 watt model, coolmax and antec make some good reliable units. mobo: you can get something for like 90 bucks.
 
This came out to almost 700:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2000MHz HT 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Dual Core Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103735

Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813128321

G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) System Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820231018

XFX PV-T73G-UDD3 Geforce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814150140

Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply 115/230 V UL, TUV, CB, FCC CLASS B, CUL - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817103931
 
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