need a little help on this

[PoisonousMonkey]

this will be the first comp i've ever made

i dont want to waste money on stuff i dont need. this comp will be for music (mp3's etc) only. i have no clue what kind of stuff i should get though. all i know is that i need alot of space.

should i buy the cheapest stuff i can find then dish out some cash for the hard drive?

[GroundZero3]

how much music (mp3s) are you planning to have?

how much is your budget limit?

and you said it is just for music?

what about speakers and monitor?

[vass0922]

For music only you could probably stick with an older machine, maybe get a 650 or something from ebay but stick in a good size hard drive. Mind you that is for music only Games require a much bigger machine.

Although nowadays you can probably get a pretty cheap machine from Dell and be quite happy

[nurdonsite2]

well if ur going to only listen music on it, all u need is like a duron 1.3 ghz, a really good sound card and also some good speakers. oh and a BIG harddrive.

[Omardeth]

ya i agree with them all . the only thing bad about older pc's is the limits on the size of the hd's . if you not going to go used just get a cheap board and cpu . and good sound card and BIG harddrives . where are ya in the world i am sure we can direct ya to a good vendor

what kind money we talking ?

[goldenbuddha]

Actually if its just for MP3,
1 )you won't even need anything above 500-600 mhz
2) HUGE HUGE hard drives (older ATA -66/100 drives are cheaper now, so you can get like a couple 120 GB 5400 RPM drives)
3) A decent sound card, like a turtle beach santa cruz (great card, none of the overhead associated with creative products).
4) Very silent case and cpu fans
5) 128-256 MB RAM

Thats a good audio server.

[nukes]

Just for mp3?
A cheap board with onboard stuff (video/lan) 64mb ram and the cheapest processor you can find for the board.
If its a new board, then the lowest cpu it will be able to take is 500mhz for AMD, just find like a Duron 600 or something and it won't have any trouble with hard disk support. Then just get some PCI sound card and you'll be set.

[cbuddha42]

you dont need that big a hard disk for just mp3s....not many peps have over 30gb of mp3s so 40 would be fine

[Telexen]

not many, huh? =\

[PoisonousMonkey]

thanks people

for those of you wandering why i would build a comp just for music, my stereos going out and its mainly just an excuse to build one lol.

i might hold out a little longer though to save up some cash, then i might just build a complete media center