Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 16:11:48 05/06/02
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Of course, it just occurred to me that you might be being facetious with the "only $3000.00" header. But at the time I added up all the costs at the cheapest I could get on price-grabber or pricewatch, and the total to put together a similar system at the time was $4860. So I checked other mail order companies and they ranged from $4200-$4600 for the same setup, or close. I wanted a large flat screen and the cheapest 18.1 inch was $1000.00 at the time. DVD-RAMs were $500.00, The video card was $400.00, the processor was $749 (it had just been released) 1Gig of PC-800 was $900.00. Fast CD-RWs were $125.00, Microsoft Office XP SBE was $300.00, Surround sound 5 speaker systems were $300.00, and sound card at $150.00. If you are looking for a plain jane box to run chess programs, then Gateway is not for you, since they use Intel, and their cheap boxes don't have the fastest processors. When I put together s system for chess, it will be just a box, motherboard, AMD processor(s), memory, CD-ROM, and cheap monitor and keyboard/mouse. No sound, built-in video, etc. Only the processor, motherboard and memory will be high-end. kp
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