How cheap can you get?

Hardware Build a PC
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My sister wants a new computer. I decided to put together the cheapest possible parts for a $200 build. Would have been under $200 but I put in the Coolermaster 2-pack fans. Only $10 more.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nXIV

Can you do better?

PS: All she does is listen to music, play with MS Paint, and surf the web. We'll be stealing the optical out of her current (windows 95) pc.

 

Edit: It could even be one of those Raspberry-Pi things. I don't know much about them, but I do know she could just use a USB Optical.

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Scrap the hdd, you wont even be able to install an OS, on that, go with a mechanical drive instead.

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You're saying that you don't think 30 GB is enough to install Ubuntu 12.10? You're crazy.

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Linux, does anyone even use that? ;)

 

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She's got ubuntu 8.04 on it now. I use Arch Linux and Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop.

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$14 psu

are you trying to kill your sister?

maybe a cubieboard? 

raspberry pi - $35

cubieboard - $50

beagleboard xm - $150 (the only one worth getting)

 

 

raspberry pi is the cheapest (you want the $35 model over the $25 model because it has twice the ram) but takes forever to ship (over a month)

cubieboard is very powerful (cortex a10 1 gHz and 1gb of ram) and is only $50, but is only availiable for pre-order

 

beagleboard is expensive and isn't worth it, but ships now.

These things do have arm processors, but can run ubuntu, but not x86 applications.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A few bucks more expensive but overall the better package. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nYnh

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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nYyE

you can get that 160gb hdd if you like

buy you get an apu with this one so if she ever wants to play games, she can.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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i'm getting mint for my desktop....

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Why don't you just go on eBay and look for some cheap computers - there is some proper cheap refurbished stuff that will be fine for what your sister wants

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148579

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1134053

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147099

$193.02 shipped