01-17-2004, 04:54 PM
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all you people out there who build your own pc's, where do you buy your computer parts and how much do you think you would spend to build a powerful machine? I added up the price and it was over 2,000. some people claim they can build one for 800, but how?
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01-17-2004, 07:19 PM
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www.zipzoomfly.com
And it depends on what your perspective of powerful is. You can get a build a pretty nice Athlon system for around $800, not including a display of course. You can get the following for around $740 including shipping: AMD Athlon 2700+ Processor Asus A7N8X E-Deluxe Motherboard 80 Gigabyte Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive (8MB Cache) 512MB Kingston DDR400 PC3200 RAM Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS ATI 9600XT Sony 52X CD-RW Sony 16X DVD Rom That's without a case, power supply, keyboard, mouse, and display. But that's still one hell of a PC for the price. All items feature free second day shipping. |
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01-18-2004, 11:10 AM
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01-18-2004, 11:25 AM
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zipzoomfly is a nice website, though i would suggest mixing and matching because i've just noticed something are cheaper on zipzoomfly.com and some are cheaper at atacom.com.
For example the ram i wanted: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...tCode=80097-41 For $523 + Free Shipping. And atacom has that exact model for 459.95 + $5 shipping. But the videocards seem cheaper on zipzoomfly. You also might want to check out newegg, though i would highly suggest using zipzoomfly.com and atacom.com. Thanx for the website Interceptor! 
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01-18-2004, 09:05 PM
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You mean I DON'T have to get a Dell or a Compaq presario if I only have like 800 dollars to spend?
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01-19-2004, 03:31 AM
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01-19-2004, 05:28 AM
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www.newegg.com
Cheap, great customer service, and stuff comes to you rather fast.
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01-19-2004, 11:08 AM
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And yes buy off of those 2 sites and you can get yourself a nice pc for about $800 with shipping. If you want i can show you what you can get and still be happy with your pc all i need to know is if you want an AMD system or a P4 system with either an ATI card or an Nvidia card.
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01-19-2004, 06:23 PM
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and dumber
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i'd want nvidia I think....and a AMD I'm pretty sure.
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01-19-2004, 09:47 PM
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No, you want ATI!
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