The Stingy Friend

"Now what?!" Carl exlcaimed

"A friend of mine wants to upgarde his PC with only $300 but wants to be able to play games, listen to music, use Mirosoft Office confidently, use internet explorer without choking the processor and all worth more than $300. How in the world am I to help such a human?" Earl complains.

"There are two things involed" Carl said advinsing Earl. "Either you back out and tell him he's sick or crack possibilities out of your head and try to help him out. Which do you feel like plunging into?"

"Well..." Earl said counting the stars in the sky, "I think I would help him out. He sounds desperate. Let's see what we have here. I have an:

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Windsor 2.0GHz 2 x 256KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor - Retail for $72.99,


• Asus A8V-E SE Motherboard ATX - Via Vt8237r - Athlon 64 X2 - DDR motherboard for $84 and
  
• OCZ EL Series 256MB DDR400 (PC 3200) Computer System Memory OCZ400256EL, 184-Pin, DDR SDRAM, Non-ECC, Unbuffered. Retail Box -aa for $29.99.

That should cost him about $190 tax inclusive. That way he can save as much as he wants to."

" Impressive...but, what if he wants an Intel processor in AMD's stead?" asked Carl objecting.

"In that case, I think he wants to narrow his PC usage to mainly media. I've done some research and i came up with these:

• Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz CPU Socket 478 - Bus 400 MHz - 256 KB L2 Cache - Sku: BX80531NK160G processor for $40 at CompuVest.
• Intel D850MV Motherboard (Pentium 4/Celeron, Socket 478, Intel 850, ATX, 2GB RDRAM, 400MHz Bus - MPN: BOXD850MVL) for $96 at Spartan Technologies and
• i860 Dual Xeon 400MHz Max-2GB RDRAM 6PCI AGP4X LAN U160 RAIDSND for $74.99 at Merchant Hound.

That should do."

"He better not change his mind to sometihng else." Carl said looking concerned.

"He better not." Earl agreed.