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Got a better setup for ya mate, which would probably work out cheaper too...well atleast in my experience!!
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 BE-2300 45w Socket AM2 1.9GHz Energy Efficient 1MB L2 Cache (~3800+)
Processor you picked is most likely uses 65w of power, whilst the energy effiecient version I have picked uses 45w. Yes it is also slightly less powerful, however the difference is negligible. In comparison, I run ALL the latest games including next gen games such as BioShock on a single core AMD AM2 3500+!! This is on a 24" monitor as well, running at 1920x1200 with pretty much maxxed out settings!!
Motherboard: ECS AMD690GM-M2 V1.0A Socket AM2 AMD 690G
Tip: The chipset is derived in part from a laptops chipset. What this means, it uses less power!! Also has an ATi X1250 graphics chip onboard!!
Ram: 2Gb is overkill in my opinion, 1Gb should be more than plenty!
Graphics card: NONE! Yup that is correct. NONE. Why you ask? Well the Nvidia 6200 is a low end graphics card that appeared two generations ago. These days you can get MUCH better onboard graphics, which is usefull when trying to achieve a setup which uses less power and less space.
The motherboard I have picked already has a kickass graphics embedded into it. Sure, it shares the RAM from the computer, but trust me, you won't know ;-) I used to game on a AMD XP 2200+ with a onboard geforce4.........what you might not know about me, I am a hardcore gamer!! This was with only 512mb of ram with 128mb going to the onboard graphics.....I was using this until a year ago!!
Also as a bonus, if and when you want to upgrade the graphics card later on, you are free to, as it has a full PCI-e 16x slot.
Oh and one more thing, the onboard graphics card has full video acceleration features, i.e Avivo. (Enhances video playback and takes the stress off the CPU leaving it to do other things such as GPS etc)
The nvidia 6200 features no such thing, its simply too old!!
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