turpentine Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 I was wondering if anyone here was willing to help me on my quest to build a media center pc (to run osx86) for ~$500 I plan on using it for casual gaming so that is why I am not getting a mac mini. This pc is to compliment my ibook. here is what I was looking at so far from newegg. WINTEC AMPO 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Desktop Memory Model 3AMD2667-1G2-R - Retail $93.99 Intel Pentium D 820 Smithfield 2.8GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80551PG2800FN - Retail $99.00 Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM + COOLMAX CT-450N ATX12V 450W Power Supply - Retail $114.9 together I still need motherboard graphics card case I haven't done anything with pcs in so long I'm not sure what I'm doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merak Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 pentium serie d 820-830-840 need too much power..and they are super hot, not a good choiche for a multimedia pc...take a normal p 3.2 3.4 or serie d 930-945....i've heard they are a bit better...but i'd stay away from first generation dual core...and i've one.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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