Author: Jasmine Baer
Date: 14:34:49 02/09/04
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I don't know if it is a good deal or not, but after building my own system, I'll never buy one from Dell, Sony, Gateway, etc. Interesting to note that they don't tell you what kind of Mobo the chip will be riding. You'll probably want to pick up a decent graphics card if you plan on doing any 3D gaming. Off-loading some of the graphics work onto a card is a good idea. Next time, my suggestion is that you build your own. For $900, I put together the following: + ANTEC Aluminum Performance 1 Series (Silver) ATX Mid-Tower Case with Side Window Panel, Swiveling Front Control Panel features LED Display + GIGABYTE 875P Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU, Model "GA-8IK1100" + Intel Pentium 4/ 2.8C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache, Hyper Threading Technology + MSI GeForce FX 5600XT Video Card, 128MB DDR, 64-bit, DVI/VIVO, 8X AGP, Model "FX5600XT-VTDR128" + Antec 430W Power Supply, Model "TRUE430" + Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, (Twin Pack) 184 Pin 512MB(256MBx2) DDR PC-3200 - Retail + Sony 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model CRX300E/A + Teac FD235HFC291 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive + Seagate 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model ST380013A-RK + Windows XP I can analyze a chess game with Fritz 8, surf the web, burn a CD, pound out a financial model on Excel, and edit pictures without skipping a beat. It does OK as a chess computer on www.playchess.com, too. It got up to 2760 with Shredder 8, and has won a couple of impromptu tournaments. You will be able to put together one heck of an AMD beast it you pony up about $700 - $800. If you don't play 3D games, you can skip the fancy graphics card and save a lot, too.
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