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Nelreem · 11-08-2001, 05:57 PM

i built a pretty good system for under 600 bucks. I have a 1.33 AMD Athlon t-bird @1.425, 64MB value video card, SBlive 5.1 sound card(but i have had problems), 30GB HD. If you have a large budget, it is really up to preference. A pentium 4 2.0 and the athlon XP 1900 are basically the same in speed, although the intel chip is more stable, and usually less problems. if your not going to overclock, get the pentium(im gonna regret saying this). It is a good chip with less bugs. when i first built my system, it crashed alot. now, it works fine

11-08-2001, 05:57 PM	#6
Nelreem Member (8 bit) Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Vermont, aka Nowhere fun Posts: 218	i built a pretty good system for under 600 bucks. I have a 1.33 AMD Athlon t-bird @1.425, 64MB value video card, SBlive 5.1 sound card(but i have had problems), 30GB HD. If you have a large budget, it is really up to preference. A pentium 4 2.0 and the athlon XP 1900 are basically the same in speed, although the intel chip is more stable, and usually less problems. if your not going to overclock, get the pentium(im gonna regret saying this). It is a good chip with less bugs. when i first built my system, it crashed alot. now, it works fine