Budget Home PC

1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.')
Ans: This is for general home use (browsing, music, hi-def movies), light gaming(football manager) and lots of memory intensive programming. A lot of services/applications run in parallel. I was looking to buy an apple mac mini but dropped due to budget constraints. but would prefer a small profile/slim PC

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans: 25k-30k including a 19-20" monitor

3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: No

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Win 7

5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans:Have a 1 TB HDD

6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans: 19-20" monitor

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans: I will not need a HDD, KB, mouse, speakers

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: Immediately

9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: Yes

10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: Chennai. I will buy either from Ritchie St or Online - whichever is cheaper

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Im looking for a small profile PC (maybe not as small as a mac mini but atleast a micro ATX profile)