New Computer.......

[funkNstyle]

Reccomendations? (personal comp, nuttin too extravagant seeing as i use it for email, boards and reason)

place, price, info, helpful tips for the "not so computer savy"

Thanks.
Jonny

 

[Stormshadow]

How much do you wanna spend Jonny?

 

[funkNstyle]

Not so much how much do i *want* to spend.
but how much should/do i spend?

The only shit im familliar with are those damn Dell commercials and the flyer for Business depot

Jonny Dude! Your getting a Dell.

 

[Stormshadow]

Athlon 1.33 GHz - $150
Eopx 8KHA Motherboard - $180
256 MB DDR RAM - $95
CDROM - $50
ATi Radeon 7000 Vid card - $109
SB Audigy sound card - $9
NIC - $25
= $704 +tax

More if you want a CD-burner, or need a monitor.

 

[funkNstyle]

I dont know much about computer's but that price is more than do-able.

Where'd you see that Dave?

Jonny

 

[funkNstyle]

I also have this comp (which i know nothing about)
Would it be better to just take it in and get it rebuilt?

 

[Stormshadow]

I got the prices from canadacomputer.com

They're all seperate parts...but this is the cheapest way to do it. Most bang for your buck. You skip the manufacturing and sales cost that would come from buy your computer pre-made.

 

[Stormshadow]

If you let me know what parts you already have, I can recommend some upgrades if that's all you need.

And I'd build it for ya if you want.

 

[funkNstyle]

Sweet!
I'll shoot ya an email this week Dave!

Thanks bro.

Jonny

 

[Uncle Bobby]

Processor:
AMD TB XP 1700MHz 266 Bus(Socket A) 256k OEM >$229

Motherboard:
MSI K7T266 PRO2-RU SKT.A001617, VIA KT266A 5PCI/0ISA/1CNR 3D >$219

Video card...options, assuming the all in wonder>$315

ROM's

LG CD-RW 24X10X40X CD-RW, INT. EIDE,BULK,NERO SOFTWARE
>$159

Hard Drive:

Maxtor 40GB ATA100, 9ms. 2M Cache 512Kc 7200rpm >$159.99

Sound Card:

Creative Sound Blaster Live Platinum (audigy)>$279

Ram:

DDR 256MB 266MHZ PC2100 >119.



Total, $1500

UB.

 

[Stormshadow]

ha, i forgot a hard drive.
too phucked up...knew i was missing something.

 

[Uncle Bobby]

Thats what she said.

UB.

 

[ADT]

I just picked up

P4 1.6G
Asus P4S333
256 DDR 333MHz



POWAHHHHH

 

[zoo]

nice

although 256 is no match for my 500 megs of ram

muahaha

i'm thinking a 1.4 amd is what i'm gonna get

nice and easy and cheap

[upgrading from a p3 500]

 

[cdp]

Is a notebook out of the question? They're not as cheap, but they'll do what you said you need, and they're very practical.

 

[Stormshadow]

Originally posted by zoo
nice

although 256 is no match for my 500 megs of ram

muahaha

i'm thinking a 1.4 amd is what i'm gonna get

nice and easy and cheap

[upgrading from a p3 500]

Hey zoo, I'm getting rid of my AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz in the next month if you're interested.

 

[ADT]

Originally posted by zoo
nice

although 256 is no match for my 500 megs of ram

muahaha

i'm thinking a 1.4 amd is what i'm gonna get

nice and easy and cheap

[upgrading from a p3 500]

256 DDR333 is actually beats the pants off of your 500MB of SD133

*ahem*

 

[Stormshadow]

Originally posted by ADT


256 DDR333

Where exactly did you get this?

 

[ADT]

you can get it anywhere...

Summit has it for for about $150

but you cant use any motherboard, even if your board uses DDR RAM, if you want to use 333MHz your probally not able to, unless your board is really new

 

[zoo]

Originally posted by ADT


256 DDR333 is actually beats the pants off of your 500MB of SD133

*ahem*

i know
but still
haha

i could pull some funny jokes here

like ...

What do you have that's half the size and twice as fast as me?

Or ..

My "RAM" is twice the size of yours and takes it's time "processing" things.

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[zoo]

^^

just light humour of course ;0P

i'm probably going to stay with sdram for now

trade-in value isn't great to go from sd-ram to ddr/rd as far as i know