Im planning on spending Au$400 but im willing to go to $500 but that is it.

What do you think of this one:: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BRAND-NEW-3-33Ghz-5...1QQcmdZViewItem

and this one:: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ASUS-INTEL-CELERON-...1QQcmdZViewItem

Are CELERON bad or something because these seem like fantastic deals? If you guys could find something better for around this price range please tell me here. thanks in advance!! :D

Celeron's are alright if you're not intending to use them for gaming. In terms of brand names it goes AMD>Intel>Celeron. AMD & Intel though are pretty much the same except for a couple of things, like AMDs are more suited for gaming, Intels are more towards business and Celeron is for old pensioners since they never do much with them.

You'll note that the first ebay link says
"AGP Slot for future upgrades"
but AGPs are becoming pretty much non-existant. I had an extremely hard time trying to find a relatively new 3D Geforce card 6 months ago since I had to find one specified for AGP motherboards. AGPs were good 2 years ago but people are moving onto SLI now (correct me if I'm wrong people about SLI since I haven't upgraded for quite a while)

I personally wouldn't buy either of those and instead buy everything seperately. But considering your budget, I guess they're alright. Just note that they're going to be a bitch to upgrade. Also if you do get one with an AGP slot, I've got a spare AGP 9600XT Radeon 128mb I could give to you which is much better than the 3D cards listed in the descriptions

Intels Core 2 duos are kicking arse at the moment, but it would seem those are out of the question due to price.

And slashy its PCI express, not Sli, Sli is just a nvidia thing for using two cards at once which you need PCI express for.

Just what do you need this thing to do?

Here is a good site with cheap prices and some decent prebuilt systems.

You really should build a new PC.

If you're going to build a new PC that caters for some really demanding games (I'm talking Oblivion, F.E.A.R. and Dark Messiah), then you'll need to spend more money than that. Maybe it's because I'm thinking in €€€, but AU$400-500 doesn't sound like an awful lot. Remember, if you're going for an utter changeover without the use of any of your old components, it'll be costly, but only in the GPU, processor area. Motherboard, PSU, RAM, HDD etc. should all come pretty cheap.

can you be more specific - tell us what you want to use the compy for? Also, Celeron's not a standalone brand, it's one of Intel's product lines. They used to have Pentiums and Celerons - Celeron's being the cheap ones processors you buy when you're building a PC for grandma. Intel have scrapped the Pentium tag now and replaced it with Core, as in Core 2 Duo's (which are awesome) and whatnot, but I think they still have Celerons.

AMD also sell both Athlon and Sempron processors, Sempron being the cheap, Celeron equivalent.

But yeh, anyway tell us what you need it for - $5/600 is not very much to spend on a new compy, so don't expect anything good. It would seriously help if you tell us what you want it for, though; gaming, or just surfing the net or what?

I just want a PC for media, digital imaging/video editing, internet etc. not really gaming at all. I want it all run very smoothly.

In that case, you won't be needing a cash overload on RAM or a GPU. Just head for a comp with a decent HDD (250GB+ for your movies), fast processor (Pentium IV should be enough for what you want) and about a gig of RAM.

Good luck.

What about this AMD 3500 is it worth paying $500 for?

I plan on getting a huge external hard drive so 80 gig should do for now.

BTW celeron = granny whats that about? :lol:

RAM is one of the most important things when it comes Digital Media and Editing.

Although your budget is fairly low for anything recent, so I can't really comment much, and it won't be too powerful.

So 512 isn't enough? even so I could simply buy another 512 for cheap and have 1G of ram which should definately be enough.

So what do you think about that amd 3500?

If you're planning on using Photoshop or video editing applications, 1GB isn't really enough then anyway.

The CPU is ok, however you also have integrated graphics on that link you posted, which will eat up main system memory as well.

Intel Dual Core 3.4Ghz

It's a little ubove my price range but i think this is the best value for money i can find.

My computer at times with a 1GB of RAM in it was sometimes stuggling when it came to running Final Cut Pro, I doubt that you'd have $1500 to blow on something like that but if your planning on image/video editing go with 2GB.

Best advice I could give you is save up a decent amount of cash and buy a mac if your just image/video editing. Hopeless for games but, in this day and age of my life I don't have much time for it.

Besides at the moment the Xbox 360 is outdoing the computer in terms on enjoyablity in my videogames.

I don't know why you're going through eBay, it's probably easier to build your own machine through an online shop.

because i cant be arsed buying seperate parts and putting them together and i want a new case. besides ebay have some good deals imho

You can actually pay for them to build it for you, with whatever case you want. Although your budget is fairly limited if you do want this for graphics / video editing (no matter where you buy from).

buy a package or ask some1 to do it for you(make a computer

Why do you think the question was asked here first?

(Rhetorical, please don't answer this question).

Celeron is okay, depending on what you're using it for.