advice needed

[Jistckin]

I need to take parts to build gaming comp. for grandson in England. will have to get monitor there. Have WD 10.1 hard drive &32 ram that came out of my system. what else can i take? am new to comps.an dont know very much!!
thanks to anyone who takes the time to help.

[drn]

well for good gameing you will need 128 meg of ram if it were me building it i would go with a

Duron 650 cpu
Asus A7V motherboard
Ge Force GTS 2 64 DDR video card
128 meg PC 133 case 2 ram
Sound Blaster X Gammer sound card
Get 300 watt Athlon approve Power supply in a full atx tower

there is a cpu now

[This message has been edited by drn (edited 09-11-2000).]

[Jistckin]

thanks Drn, will I need to get anything else? Is quite pricey to buy there.

[drn]

no that should do it your grandson will love you if you get him a sys like that then can upgrade later on in the futur as the motherboard will run past the one gig mark and then some and up to 2 gig of ram

[Psycho-holic Slag]

MORE than enough - hopefully he loves you anyway, but if he didn't he will after that!

minor typo in the suggestion:

the RAM you're looking for is CAS 2, not case.

[Jistckin]

thanks from what you say his dad might keep this one and give son his instead!!!

[RataToo]

um.....wont he need a processor? I don't see one mentioned....

[Jistckin]

thanks again drn,also Ratatoo for update. Was wondering about disc drive also ??

[drn]

any cdrom faster than24 time will be good and a floppy as well

[dgardner]

Lucky grandson thats all I can say. Wish I had grandparents in the US, do you know how much computer parts cost over here!!!!!

~Dave~

P.s. Care to adopt me as a grandson and bring me some parts, heck I'll even put the systems together for you and install all the software if you do http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Jistckin]

sorry Dave can't afford any more Grandkids or sons either!!!!!

[barry glisson]

To avoid a rude awakening check with customs declaring something incorectly can be costly. Also used parts and or systems usually pay much less in import fees. Might pay to assemble it here ,use it a short time with dated files on the hard drive to prove it is used. Some computer parts cannot be exported,also some software.Oh yes carry all your reciepts to prove original cost. In other words cya barry