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02-03-2009, 10:18 AM
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Buy or build
The 5 year old Micron P 4 3 gig, 2 G ram, XPPRO, Intel board , like me, is getting a little long in the tooth.
She Who Must Be Obeyed is using it for email and surfing. Hope it will last till windows 7 comes out, but don’t want to put anymore into it. Replaced power supply about 2 years ago. I have been looking at Dell & Hp in the $500 range on line. Wonder if I could build a reliable box for $500. Do Not need externals. My only firm specs are 64 bit OS capability and at least4 gig DDR 2 800 ram . What say you mighty guru’s?
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hudson80 Build 10 November 07 so far not even a hiccup. No over clocking Gigabyte Poseidon Case, gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 Rev 2 , BIOS F11 PSU corsair 620HX, CPU Intel C2D E6750 2.66 gig, Memory Crucial, 8 gig ,(4 X 2 G sticks) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) 1.8 volt GPU PNY 8500GT 512MB. 2 Seagate internal SATA HD 1 Seagate eSATA HD all running AHCI. Lite On SATA DVD DL burner, Lite on SATA DVD burner. Floppy drive . Dual Boot Vista HP 64/, Windows 7 RC1,monitor Samsung T260HD Last edited by hudson80; 02-03-2009 at 10:23 AM. |
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02-03-2009, 10:36 AM
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Could you possibly go over $500?
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02-03-2009, 11:01 AM
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LITE-ON 22X DVD Burner Black SATA Model iHAS322-08 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106286 $25.49 COOLER MASTER Elite 330 RC-330-KKN1-GP Black SECC ATX Mid Tower Computer Case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119115 $34.99 SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD502lJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152098 $59.99 SILVERSTONE ST50F 500W ATX12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817256037 $69.99 mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model 996558 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146693 $39.99 ASUS P5KPL-CM LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131288 $54.99 Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80571E5200 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116072 $72.99 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit for System Builders http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116488 $99.99 Subtotal: $458.42
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02-03-2009, 11:03 AM
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I could but would rather not
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02-03-2009, 11:06 AM
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$500 just for the computer?
Email and web use only? Sure. MB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131288 CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116072 HD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136320 Ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145184 PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341010 Case: your choice OS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116488 Without shipping and a case it comes to: $437. That's before rebates too. $60 in rebates there. EDIT: Forgot dvd burner. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106286 Add another $25
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02-03-2009, 11:20 AM
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very easy. Just make sure you get discounted products and find old reliable builds to make sure you get your money's worth.
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02-03-2009, 12:29 PM
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shadowpr has listed an economic and solid list.
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02-06-2009, 04:01 PM
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For $500 I'd order a Dell.
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