Cheap, old school build advice!

[Muel]

Yeh, I'm thinking of upgrading an old PC I have for my brother for christmas, the current one he has is on socket 478!

I have a case, 2 cheap horrid PSUs, 2x IDE hard drives, a 120gb and an 80gb, two IDE DVD-RW drives, a NVidia 6200A AGP graphics card and all the cabling it will need.

I was thinking, if I just get a motherboard, CPU, RAM and a CPU cooler, I could have a much more usable system there?

I'm not very up on the old tech though, first thing to sort is a motherboard, it has to have an AGP 8x slot, DDR2 RAM, socket 775, support for 65nm and 2 IDE sockets, were there any with this spec back in the day?

I'm not too fussed on the processor spec, as long as it's dual core and can be overclocked a bit, it doesn't need to be a rocket ship, just capable of running games like GTA San Andreas at decent settings.

The RAM, 2gb, other than that I really don't care on the spec.

Can it be done for £100? I'm thinking of getting it second hand, but I need to decide on the spec first.


Would like to go AMD aswell, because I'm a fanboy.

Cheers for any advice in advance!

 

[Cupra]

have a look in members market bud i dont see why not, however the 6200 is going to run nothign games wise

 

[Muel]

I ran the 6200 in a 478 machine and it seemed alright to me? Ran San Andreas anyway at not too shabby settings.

Thats the only game he'll want to play on the PC, he's got a 360 and loves it.

Although, if I moved to PCI-E I'd find it much easier to get bits for it... And I could then get a 45nm board...

I need to keep the cost down though, £100 is the maximum!

 

[Cupra]

on mm u should be able to get a cpu, ram mobo and a cheap gpu for £100

 

[Muel]

Cheers, I'll keep an eye out!