   Looking for a new computer!
  Hey everyone,Im looking for a new computer and i wanna get the best i can.I have a budget of about $250.00.It needs at the least 120GB of harddrive space.It needs at the least 512MB of memory.Thank you   
  I suggest you build your own with that low of a budget. This site http://www.newegg.com/ can help you find parts.   ;  i wont say its impossible but i think you better be looking in the 4-600 dollar range for those specs ;);  do you suggest amd or intel and the best socket for it..   ;  Moved to the Lounge.   ;  If you go on EBay, which is the only place I know that you can find a PC for that coin, and look for a bare bones tower,I have seen them with a HD close to that size and the memory,pretty rare. More realistically for 250$ you will get a bare bones on Mid or Max tower, with 256mb, and a 80 gb HD, probably a AMD 2200-2800, somwhere around there(I dont know jack about Intel sorry??). You can find lots on Ebay, look for a local dealer, lots of computer stores use Ebay, some have good support(some none),try and find a good dealer(doh). A stick of 512 ram these days can be had for 60$ on a good day, and another 80 gig HD for 50-75. That would be a solid system for little coin Try and find out the type of motherboard and do a bit of research, google the name, and or part number, and read some reviews, and forum feedback. Ive seen cheapies with garbage mobos, and with solid, workable boards as well. You will not get a dual core,PCI ready(?), most up to date  motherboard out there, not even last years. More like 3-5 yrs ago, for that type of money. That isnt a really a bad thing, computers are hugely powered these days, so even older hardware will still perform great.If you have the talent build your own, use your old box,DvD, mem etc... Its remarkably easy, I think if you can program, you can build a computer. Basically plugging things in,loading the drivers, the bios(of course). Ever seen some of the people that work in tech stores...(joke people). But it isnt rocket science, you can get lots of info about it on the net, if you want to look into it. Best of luck with it.   ;  a good graphics card alone will probably cost you more than that.  I'd recommend getting like $600 together and building one from newegg parts   ;  You might be able to buy one of the eMachines Sempron machines, but I don't recommend those.TigerDirect has some bare-bones kits, but you'll have to invest a decent amount of coin to get a video card and other parts for them (often barebones kits don't even ship with a CPU).There's one on TD right now, which after $110 rebate, is like $208 CAD and comes with a GeForce 6100 integrated GPU. It's not going to be very fast, but it'll get the job done.  You'll need to buy a hard drive, but those are less than fifty cents a gig now.I'd just save the money up and buy something decent later on, because by Vista you'll be able to find one of these machines in your neighbours' trash bin.   