Building a cheap PC for my father

[14 of a hotdog]

My father wants me to build him a PC, he will mostly use it for browsing the internet but wants to play some games. I want to shoot for under 500 but I think anything under 700 would still be fine with him. It needs to include a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. I think he would be perfectly content with playing older games so it does not need a nice video card or CPU.

Proposed system:

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138182
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103688
Video card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150393
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231179
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136320
PSU: (Will this suffice?) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182021
Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811154095
Optical drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106333
OS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116754
Monitor: (I think he would be fine with this but I will run it by him if you approve of it) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236070
Mouse: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826146009
Keyboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823107120

Total is around $635 I would think that he would find that reasonable but how much lower could I get?

 

[captaincranky]

Regrettably, I absolutely do NOT recommend any Wide screen monitor below 22 inches.

I've had two 19 inchers, I sold one, returned the other. The vertical height is (IMO) insufficient.

Again IMO, it's well worth the extra 40 bucks for a 22" screen, and you'll be happier with it for a lot longer.

The vertical height issue is also being exacerbated buy the current crop of 16:9 "full hi-def" panels, They are also much more "vertically challenged" than a panel of the older 16:10 computer standard. 16:10 panels carry 1680 X 1050 resolution, not the 1920 X 1080 Hi-def standard.

In other words, the 16:9 screens are a true hi-def 1980 X 1080, but you need to buy at least a 23" panel to have the height equal to a 22" 16:10

I would go for this if you want to stay with Asus....http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236078 I just checked and HDCP is supported with this unit

 

[Route44]

I know this is more than what you listed to pay for a power supply but I'd choose this Corsair over that Roswell: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139003&Tpk=corsair power supply

Also, can you tell us what kind of games he plans on playing?

 

[14 of a hotdog]

I know this is more than what you listed to pay for a power supply but I'd choose this Corsair over that Roswell: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139003&Tpk=corsair power supply

Also, can you tell us what kind of games he plans on playing?

I think he wants to play real time strategies more than anything else.

 

[Ritwik7]

Get yourself the Radeon HD 4670 GPU. Some of them are listed for a price similar to the 4650 with a rebate.