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Need advice on building a system. (Recycled parts involved)


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Tephan

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Greetings!

Let's get right to it, shall we?

Budget: $700.
Preferred shopping: Amazon Prime or Newegg. (I prefer Amazon Prime for the free shipping, but I also like Newegg, whichever is cheaper after shipping.)

The goals:
Convert VHS to DVD.
Rudimentary video editing.
Windows 7 Home & Student.
Minecraft.
Microsoft Office 2010.
Items to be recycled:
ePower Warrior Steel Case: ATX Mid Tower
HIS Radeon X1650PRO 512 MB 128-bit PCI Express x16 Video Card
Acer P235Hbmid Black 23" Widescreen Monitor
Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000
Rosewill Stallion Series 450W ATX v.2.2 Power Supply

Items I've located:
Gigabyte DDR3 1800 AMD Socket FM1 Motherboard $115.99
AMD A8-3850 APU with AMD Radeon 6550 HD Graphics 2.9 GHz Socket FM1 100W Quad Core Processor $134.99
Kingston Technology HyperX 8 GB Kit (2x4 GB Modules) 8 Dual Channel Kit 1600 (PC3 12800) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX $54.99
Samsung Desktop Class Spinpoint F3 1 TB SATA 3.0 Internal OEM Drive $59.99
Hauppauge 1128 WinTV-HVR-1850 Internal Hybrid TV Tuner/Video Recorder $103.99
Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Student $119.99
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit (Full) System Builder DVD $91.98
Arctic Silver Thermal Compound $5.17

Price with shipping: $687.09

Thank you in advance for your suggestions and I hope that I've formatted this correctly and included all the information required.

Edited by Tephan, 28 August 2011 - 11:46 AM.

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