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03-08-2004, 02:33 PM
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| Super Techie Join Date: Sep 2003
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 |  for the cpu, trust me, you want that extra 512 kb of cache go with this one, it is only 6 dollars more http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...=BROWSE&depa=0 and the 9600xt is only 150 at newegg
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03-08-2004, 07:36 PM
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| Ultra Techie Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 590
| Whats up Justin? Didnt know you came here. If you seriously want an ENTIRE gaming PC for ~600 youre gonna have to cut serious corners. Heres what I did with $650 (yea I went over, and I also grabbed a case, CDRW and PSU): ALL PRODUCTS CLICKABLE FOR LINKS TO NEWEGG ITEMS. Case ANTEC Black Performance Series II SOHO File Server Tower ATX Case with 400W Power Supply - $92.00 CD Burner Combo Drive Lite-On Black 48X24X48X16 Combo Drive - $46.50 Floppy Mitsumi Black 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy - $11.00 Hard Drive Western Digital Special Edition 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive - $71.00 Memory Crucial 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 - $84.00 Motherboard (AMD) ABIT nForce2 Chipset Motherboard Model "NF7-S" - $100.99 Processor AMD Athlon XP 2500+ "Barton" - $80.00 Video Card Transcend ATI RADEON 9600XT Video Card, 128MB DDR, 128-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP - $158.00 Subtotal - $643.49 ============================================= Total (with shipping to Washington) - $668.49 Theres no way to get a decent gaming PC with $600. This is the closest thing youll get to it. The motherboard has built in LAN so no NIC card is needed. The onboard sound on the NF7-S is also apparently pretty good so I say wait till you can afford a decent sound card and spend that cash now on other things. Any questions ask away.
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03-08-2004, 07:48 PM
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| Super Techie Join Date: Mar 2004
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| Yeah, you can get a nice case for about $50 amd a great motherboard around $80.
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03-09-2004, 12:02 PM
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| Newb Techie Join Date: Mar 2004
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| yeah you can cut about $75 if you go for a fairly cheap case and Mobo . $600 is pushing it abit .
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03-09-2004, 01:06 PM
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| Ultra Techie Join Date: Dec 2003
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| I'd love to see you fellas dig up a dependable 400W PSU and a decent case for anything lower than $92. Sure theres ways to cut cash from that build... but a PC should be about expandability. I chose that mobo in case he wanted to upgrade his processor later, also because I didnt buy a sound card and the onboard of a NF7-S is supposedly very decent.
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