At 07:17 PM 09/03/2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Mesdaq, Ali wrote:
Wow ok that's half the price of the intel chip I had on that list. What
is a good board and memory to get with that?
Computer Cost Breakdown
ITEM PRICE Description
Monitor $250.00 .25 dot pitch crt
Motherboard $200.00 ASUS board
CPU $160.00 AMD 3200
Memory $400.00 1 gig rambus
Case $100.00 ?
Power Supply $100.00 ?
Hard Drive $150.00 ?
CD/DVD $130.00 ?
Keyboard $40.00 Zboard Merc edition
Mouse $80.00 Razr gaming mouse
Network Card $40.00 Intel Gigabit card
Other Hardware
OS $100.00 XP
Other software $300.00 Top games
Total $2,050.00
Ok, here's a possible system:
AMD 64 3500+
AOpen nCK804a-LFS
Radeon X1900XT 512MB
1 GB PC3200
250GB Western Digital KS
DVDR
XP Pro
You'd need the monitor, etc, but that would bring you in around $1734
CDN /and you'd kick the heck out of Dell's XPS 600. And you be
getting two year warranty at a minimum.
T