good cheap computer

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If you had $200 or less to spend on a computer(to do DAW work) on ebay what would you go for? Any particular low-end brand better than another???

I wanna get a relatively cheap used one to slowly get compatible with an MBox. I'll mess with increasing the ram and all that. I just need a place to start...
 
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$200 is not a lot of bucks for a PC, even on EBay. What PC gear, if any, do you have today?

Dell offers outlet models for about $300 minus the monitor.

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Tell us what you have. Maybe it will be enough for you to upgrade your motherboard, processor and memory. In this case $200 may be realistic.
 
I have an HP Pavilion...thing is I can't really turn it into a DAW untill I get ANOTHER computer to use as my home pc. So, I know it wouldn't cost much to get another PC like what I already have, ya know?

I'm wanting to get something I can run ProTools LE on. I'm not in love with PT, but it's what everybody in bands I play with use, and I want to swap files as easily as possible, and that seems to be the way to do it. I know PT has HP Pavilion compatibility problems, but have know idea where the incopatibility comes from. Is it the motherboard? I don't know...

I'm basically just looking for the bare bones of a computer,, from where I can over time swap out the hard drive, put more ram in, etc......
 
Since you are talking about a whole new computer, $200 is not enough. Unless, of course, you find some kind of a deal on ebay, ubid or somewhere else.
Also, you should be aware that brandname computers, especially lower end models, are NOT upgrade friendly. In many cases stock electronic parts, like memory for example, would not work and you will have to use proprietary parts from that brand.
Even adding a hard drive can be tricky. One time I was helping to add a second hdd to one aging cheap Gateway. Upon opening the case we found out that there were no empty drive bays, no loose power connector, and power supply itself was of weird shape and size. Besides, the BIOS did not want to recognize a big hard disk, and we could not find proper file to flash the BIOS. So instead of adding another big drive we ended up replacing the original drive with a slightly bigger one.
Sorry for bad news.
 
Soyo Barebones $19.99
Hitachi 80gig 7.2krpm $61
Crucial DDR333 256MB RAM $48
Windows XP Home $86
AMD Athlon 2500+ $80

$294.99, and compliant w/ Digi's requirements for MBox.

As cheap as I can get it, without being stupid (i.e saving $20 for a lot slower CPU)
 
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