My friend has kind of been looking to buy a new PC. His main motivation is that his old Dell's Intel IGP is no good for the flight simulator he wants to use. (It also doesn't have much upgrading potential, since it lacks AGP or PCI Express slots.) Now that Vista is old news it's a better time to get a new PC anyway. 
I was going to try and give him an idea of how much a homebuilt PC would cost for him, so I was wondering if you fellows wouldn't mind looking over my selection:
■Rosewill R101-P-BK Computer Case
■CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX 450W Power Supply
■AMD Athlon II X3 435 (2.9GHz, Socket AM3)
■BIOSTAR A785G3 (AM3, 785G) Motherboard
■2 x 2GB A-DATA RAM (PC3 10666)
■WD Caviar Blue 640GB Hard Drive
■ASUS DRW-24B1ST SATA 24X DVD Burner
(Don't worry; I won't neglect to mention the cost of an OS as well.) Basically I just want to propose something that will get him good bang for the buck right now, and be fairly upgradeable should he want to improve it later. I know there's no graphics card in that list, but I was thinking it might be better to hold off on getting that until he's tried the IGP on that motherboard.
I know it's still not exactly the greatest GPU out there, but I imagine it should kick the pants off a six-year-old Intel IGP, and with his small monitor it might end up being adequate for his needs in the here and now. (He's not really a 'gamer' per se, so I don't think he'll be needing too fantastic of a GPU - just something to try out his flight simulator on.) We can always throw in a graphics card if it ends up he wants better graphics performance.
Anyway, how does that selection look?
I was going to try and give him an idea of how much a homebuilt PC would cost for him, so I was wondering if you fellows wouldn't mind looking over my selection:■Rosewill R101-P-BK Computer Case
■CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX 450W Power Supply
■AMD Athlon II X3 435 (2.9GHz, Socket AM3)
■BIOSTAR A785G3 (AM3, 785G) Motherboard
■2 x 2GB A-DATA RAM (PC3 10666)
■WD Caviar Blue 640GB Hard Drive
■ASUS DRW-24B1ST SATA 24X DVD Burner
(Don't worry; I won't neglect to mention the cost of an OS as well.) Basically I just want to propose something that will get him good bang for the buck right now, and be fairly upgradeable should he want to improve it later. I know there's no graphics card in that list, but I was thinking it might be better to hold off on getting that until he's tried the IGP on that motherboard.
I know it's still not exactly the greatest GPU out there, but I imagine it should kick the pants off a six-year-old Intel IGP, and with his small monitor it might end up being adequate for his needs in the here and now. (He's not really a 'gamer' per se, so I don't think he'll be needing too fantastic of a GPU - just something to try out his flight simulator on.) We can always throw in a graphics card if it ends up he wants better graphics performance.
Anyway, how does that selection look?
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