a good deal?

[Valentino]

Hey, i found this ad in my gaming mag and wondering if it was a bargin?


Nvidia nForce 4 SLI cip Dual Pci Express Mobo
NZXT Trinity mid-tower Case
Corsair 512mb DDR400 Memory
Serial-ATA 160 Gb 7200rpm HDD
16x Dvd Rom
52x31x52 CD-RW
Nvidia GeForce 6200LE 128MB 16x Pci Express Vid Card
8-cahannel surround sound
10/100/1000 MBps LAN
600 surround watt speakers
Multimedia keyboard and optical mouse
with a AMD Athlon 64 3200+

All for 559 almost 600 with shipping

Is it Good?
Or could i build a better one for cheaper?

[rspassey]

Really depends on the brands of the products... is that an ASUS board (probably not..) and the same goes for the rest of the hardware.. if I were you I would look into the manufacturer of the parts... but for a gaming rig this one is a little on the older side with hardware.. such as no dvd burner... a 6200 card (which is still pretty good, but the norms now are in the 6600 and up).

[Valentino]

http://ibuypower.com/ibp/store/confi...r.aspx?mid=106 This is the one. All the default settings are what costs $559. this is more in depth i gues..

[rspassey]

Well if you ever think about SLI, that standard PSU wont cut it.

The RAM doesn't cleary say what brand it is so I would be leary with that when it says "or Major Brand"

I think that video card is turbo cache and will use system RAM to run so you wont have 512mb RAM anymore, just 256

Mentions nothing about the brand of the Opticals.. would again want to watch out for getting some not so nice brand

[jayb1234]

That site seems pretty shady to me. Doesn't give any specs about the "standard" power supply and half the optional ones are generic junk. same thing with a lot of the other components. One thing you can be sure of is that if they don't tell you what a part is, it is some piece of junk. Thier ratings are pretty bad. If you want a configurator build, there are a lot of better sites around that don't use junk parts.