My grandparents currently have this desktop. It's my old oooold oldddd computer, it has an AMD dual core, 250GB Hard drive, it's just ancient. It even has a massive 16" monitor not a flat one. It's an old HP desktop with some minor changes and 512Mb of ram. It's from 2002 give or take, I just remember it could play Runescape maxed in it's prime.
Now, I don't ever go there anymore, but my younger cousins go and play Halo:CE and Runescape on it. I left Halo on it when I gave it to them that's the only reason. But anywho, they're in need of a new one because it's at the point where they can barely even check their email on it it's so slow and Halo even lags. I've defragged it, cleaned all the viruses, everything. It's just too damn slow.
So they need a whole new setup. Here's what I picked out, it's going to use Ubuntu rather than Windows 7.
I'm not buying it, just building it for them.
The only games that'll be played on it are a couple I'll install for them; Half Life 2, Black Mesa, Runescape, Combat Arms, Terreria, Minecraft, and Sims 3.
I want the whole setup around 600-700$. So here's everything I picked. I dunno if the Mobo and APU work together though.
APU: AMD A10
Case: NXZT Gamma
SSD: Samsung 830
DVD Drive: Asus burner
PSU: Rosewill 530w 80 Plus certified
Speakers: Hercules 2.0
Keyboard: Keytronic Ps/2
Memory: 8Gb G.skill ripjaws
Mouse pad: Xtrac
Mobo: ASROCK Extreme 3
Monitor: Acer 21.5
Total: 611$ Plus I'll get a flash drive for Linux.