Workstation for my dad

my dad asked me if I could build him a computer for his office. Typically they order from Dell, but he asked me if I would build him one (it's cheaper for his office and I get the $$) anyway here is what ai sketched out, please tell me if you see any problems. Thanks in advance for all the help!

Processor: Celeron 2.0 ghz: $86
http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/Prod [...] Code=80541

ASUS Motherboard for Intel Pentium 4 Processors, Model #P4GE-V/L - $120
http://www.newegg.com/app/Viewprod [...] r=P4GE-V/L

CASE: 350 Watt Power Supply, Generic Case - $48
www.newegg.com - N82E16811158001

RAM: pc2100 256mb - $61
www.newetgg.com - KVR266X64C25/256

Hard Drive: WD WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE 40GB 7200RPM MODEL # WD400BB - $85
www.newegg.com - N82E16822140118

Video Card: VGA EVGA GEFORCE2 TI64MB - $63
www.newegg.com – N82E16814130128

Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Dolby Digital 5.1 - $36
www.newegg.com - N82E16829102156

CD-RW Drive:
Lite On 40X12X48 CDRW Model: LTR40125S - $50
www.newegg.com - N82E16827106177

Iomega Internal EIDE 250MB Zip Drive - $63
www.newegg.com - N82E16840107121

Monitor - Viewsonic E70f 17" PerfectFlat CRT Monitor - $152
www.newegg.com - N82E16824116169

Speaker, Keyboard, Mouse – $0-50

$764 Total

he really doesn't do anything intensive though. Word Processing, Email, Internet, and thats it. He's using an Optiplex PIII 450 right now and it's near its death. He's a 60 year old lawyer so he's not photoshopping or anything.

Find a motherboard with onboard sound (that one might have it) so that you can cut out the soundcard. You're the one making the money here right? He doesn't need a soundcard in the office.

Zip 250? Why? Up the burner to a 24x re-writable and buy him some disks. 14 rewritables (one for everyday of the week, 2 weeks worth, to back up data at the end of each day)

Personally, if I were you, I would get something like a nforce mobo (maybe a Asus A7N266) and a athlon and use the onboard sound and video. That's $70 for the mobo, and say $70 for a T-bred 1700+ which is by far better than that celeron garbage. That's over $150 cheaper and better.


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Recommended components:

CPU:- Athlon XP 1700+
Mobo:- ASUS A7N266-VM
Ram:- 256 MB Kingston PC2100 CL2.5 DDR
Video Card:- Onboard GeForce2 MX
Sound:- nForce APU
LAN:- Onboard
CD-RW:- LiteOn 48x/24x/48x


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I don't know why people recommended that you opt out of a Zip Drive. Your dad is a lawyer and would certainly go for a <b>DESCENT</b> backup mechanism. I have found that a Zip drive is ok for backing up important files. Creating a CD, even CDRW, is too much of a hassle, unless you need major backups.

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What's the hastle? With WinXP there's no hastle at least. The reason I don't think a zip drive is practical is because the disks are expensive, the drives are expensive, and although the new 750MB zip run at 50x, a 24x CD-RW is pretty damn good.

I have a Zip100 internal drive, and although I have used it a lot, it wasn't nearly enough to justify me buying it. Unless you're a student I can't really think of a single reason to own a zip drive now that cd-rw drives are so fast and cheap.

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I recently built a Athlon 1800+ system for my 85 year old grandma, I can't agree more with the earlier suggestions. I used a nforce 1 board from MSI and 2100 DDR, it was cheap and performs excellently.

Tim

ps: she is into geneology and regualry uses very large databases of the UK census's that use to cripple her old machine.

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