Check out this Machine tell me what you think

[Guest]

CASE: AMD CERTIFIED ATX FULL TOWER CASE 300 WATT (+20)
CD: 16X DVD ROM
CD-RECORDER: PLEXTOR CD-RW 40X16X10 (+129)
COOLING SYS: AMD CERTIFIED CPU FAN & HEATSINK UP TO 1.4GHZ
CPU: AMD ATHLON(TM) THUNDERBIRD 1.4GHz CPU C6501 (+1259)
FLOPPY: TEAC 1.44 MB FLOPPY DR (+ 4)
HARD DRIVE: 40GB 7200 RPM UDMA 100 HARD DRIVE (+30)
KEYBOARD: PS2 WIN98 MULTIMEDIA KEYBOARD
MEMORY: 256 MB PC2100 PC266 DDR MEMORY -REQUIRES DDR MB(+40)
MODEM: ZOOM PCI 56K V.90 FAX MODEM
MONITOR: SCPTRE P98V 19 INCH .26 MM SVGA
MOTHERBOARD: ASUA A7A266 ALI 266MHZ DDR MB [2DDR + 3 SDR] (+75)
MOUSE: PS2 INTERNET MOUSE
NETWORK CARD: PCI 32 BIT 10/100 NETWORK CARD (+ 19)
OFFICE SUITE: COREL WORDPERFECT OFFICE 2000
OS: MICROSOFT WINDOWS MILLENNIUM (+0)
SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY PLUS THREE YEARS ONSITE SERVICE (+99)
SOFTWARE: NORTON ANTI VIRUS VER 5.0 ENGINE (+ 9)
SOUND: CREATIVE LAB SB LIVE VALUE
SPEAKERS: ALTEC LANCING ACS 54 SUBWOOFER STEREO W 4 SPEAKERS SYSTEM
VIDEO: VISIONTEK GEFORCE-3 NFINITE 64MB DDR (+320)
ZIP: NONE

 

[FatBurger]

Not bad, but if you picked up a second hard drive and a RAID card, you'd notice the difference.

Apple? Macintosh? What are these strange words you speak?

 

[tartarhus]

Brands, brands, brands. Can't make an opinion about generic equipment. Who's ram? Who's DVD? Who's hard drive? Specs mean nothing, the brand name will tell us everything.

-- Chaos is the better order.

 

[Crashman]

You'd be happier with a SCSI CDRW. Because of the low transfer rate required, an inexpensive SCSI card would do for that. Plus you can use SCSI with a scanner, should you choose to get one, with much better performance than USB.

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

 

[Guest]

WHOA!! You spent $1259 for your processor??? LOL!
I spent $150 on my 1ghz 266 @ 1.5ghz.

Hmmm...$0 for your OS--does that mean its a copy??!!

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[Guest]

1259 is a base price the OS in included in that base price

 

[baron]

I am building a system that is similar and yet 400 dollars cheaper. Don't forget to add shipping (and maybe taxes) to your order (gateway is almost in all 50 states). You might like to build it yourself.

Mine is about 1350 (includes shipping and mostly retail products)(I didn't buya new monitor or office software)

Aopen Full Tower 300 watt
AMD 1.4ghz retail CPU
Motherboard: Assus retail a7a266
Ram: 512meg (2x256meg sticks) DRR CAS 2.5 - Crucial
IBM retail Deskstar 40gig 7200rpm 60GX
Video retail: Leadtek GeForce2 Ultra 64meg 
Sound retail: Philips Acoustic Edge 5.1
Windows 98SE
retail CD-RW Plextor 16-10-40
retail CD-ROM Asus 52X
4-Sensor Thermal Bay display
1-120mm fan, 3-80mm Fans, HD Fan, Bay Cooler

This bay cooler thing is suppose to turn on/off fans when the temp is at a certain level that you can set. its cool. I am in the works on getting my last parts shipped. One company messed up my order, but only one out of 10. Not bad odds.

IMacs for the blind

 

[Guest]

I had a pretty bad expercience with Scepter monitors, returned them 4 times before changing for a ViewSonic.
Don't buy it! It is an advice!

"Where the hell is that 'Anykey'???"