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Help me and my sister build a computer!

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Mad Onion:
Woah. 1500 for a new computer, if your going to get a "super awesome ultra mega never going to need all that power before I have to up grade"  computer. Come on you can porbably easly get what she wants for 1500.

Se7en:
more to the point, 1500 what? what currency are we talking here?
What your going to need:

Monitor - 19" TFT if you can
Keyboard and mouse - dont buy the cheapest if you want to game, but dont bother blowing loads of cash on silly ones.
Case - i always use horrifically expensive ones, but i dont have to pay for em. What you end up with depends entirely on your budget, how much cooling you need, and how good you want it to look.
Power supply - sometimes comes with the case. You wont need anything too fancy though, but avoid generic brands all the same.
CPU - Its gotta be an athlon 64. Socket 754 sempron if you dont have the budget, or socket 939 if you have the cash.
Graphics card - The most important part of a gaming system. DONT skimp here, whatever you do. The geforce 6600 GT is a good starting point.
Memory - Spec is irrelevant, you just want branded stuff with a warrenty, and a gig of it.
Sound card - you dont need one! nowadays motherboards have onboard sound thats as good as even a rather expensive sound card.
Motherboard - spec depends entirely on the rest of the components you get. I can suggest something later.
Hard drive - Big, SATA, and not a WD or IBM/hitachi.
Optical drive - DVD burners are dirt cheap now.

SpacemanSpiff:
Se7en basically pointed everything out.
As for the CPU, since you have the budget, I would go with the socket 939. It's the better choice.
Make sure the cooling is silent, a loud computer is extremely annoying. That means: Make sure the CPU cooler, the power supply and video card aren't too noisy.
SATA is good as long as you only want to run Windows.
In case you want recommendations for TFTs and optical drives, I have tons here in a few mags. They were thoroughly tested and so far, their recommendations always turned out to be really good so I trust them.
Right now, I don't have the time, but I'll post something specific later on.

1patheticloser:

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Power supply - sometimes comes with the case. You wont need anything too fancy though, but avoid generic brands all the same.

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I dunno. I'm a big fan of larger power supplies, especially if she'll be running SATA and big fuck off graphics cards. Don't get less than a 400 Watt supply. I like Antec power supplies personally.

SpacemanSpiff:
Getting a powersupply that's larger than what you need is ineffective. Power supplies work effectively if they're under about 80% load, if you don't reach that, you're just inflating your electricity bill without actually getting more out of it. 400W are definitely enough unless you feel like running 4 harddisks and SLi.

Here, I've quickly cobbled a system together using a German online shop, but from what I've seen the prices are roughly the same everywhere so you would probably end up below 1500 bucks as well:
RAM: Kingston Value DDR RAM 1gb kit  - 115€
CPU: AMD Athlon64 Socket 939 3000+ Venice core - 109€
Cooling: Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 - 19,90€ - a very effective, silent cooler that's also cheap
DVD Drive: NEC ND-3450A - 52€
Power supply: Tagan TG420-U1 420W - 79€ - it's silent and stable
HD: 200gb SATA Seagate disk - 109€
Case: Chieftech UNI series - 69€ - not as good-looking, but they're great to handle good quality and cheap
Video: Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D Geforce 6600GT - 159€- good price and rather silent
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI - 124€ - passively cooled nForce4, good motherboard
Screen: Eizo S1910 19" - 530€ - a great screen, fast and great image quality

A few things: Do not get an actively cooled nForce4, the small coolers on there are annoyingly loud and break easily. Instead, I would get the board I chose plus a one or two case coolers (that would add 20€ or so).
Do not try and get a cheap screen. I find that looking at a screen with bad image quality gives you a headache so I would rather try and save money somewhere else.

Total: 1369€.

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