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| Thread ID: 22018 | 2002-07-10 01:22:00 | Home built computer... | Mr. Insanity (957) | Press F1 |
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| 61173 | 2002-07-10 01:22:00 | Hi, I have decided to build my own computer, it's main use will be gaming, but I am on a budget of ~$2800 The parts: 3R System Neon Light Case , 300W ATX PSU (Already got) Athlon XP 2000+ Gigabyte GA-7VRX motherboard Gainward GeForce4 Ultra/650 TV video card (Ti4200, 64Mb RAM) Diamond Data DD401248 CD-Writer (Already got) Seagate Barracuda IV 80GB Creative Sound Blaster Audigy DE Memtek 256MB PC2100 DDR Memory X2 (512MB RAM) XP Professional OEM and a cheap Mitsumi floppy disk drive. i'm getting the parts from Ascent Technology and Paradigm PC and the end price is: $2660.44 Comments? Suggestions? My main concern is the motheboard, i'm not sure if I should get a Gigabyte or a Soltek... |
Mr. Insanity (957) | ||
| 61174 | 2002-07-10 01:42:00 | Do you really need a floppy disk drive? They went out years ago :) Try shopping around some more, I'm sure you can get a much better price than that. Try www.pricespy.co.nz My neighbour was able to get his pc prebuilt for about $1800 inc GST. He had a Athlon XP 1800, GF4 64mb MX420 (Gainwood), 24x cd burner, cdrom drive, 512mb 133 ram, speakers, keyboard, mouse, etc and a really nice case! A bit of bargaining was required but it turned out cheaper than building it ourselves. | segfault (655) | ||
| 61175 | 2002-07-10 02:19:00 | I've used both Mobos before. They are fine but I ended up with a Soltek from e-one.co.nz because it was on a special deal with RAM and Processor. I got a Soltek + AMD1.4 + 256MB Ram for under $800 +gst. Check them out at www.e-one.co.nz There are probably a few other shops with specials. Shop around for them. |
nzStan (440) | ||
| 61176 | 2002-07-10 02:22:00 | Sorry I think I paid 500 + gst :p can't remember hmmmmmm..... what was I smoking????? | nzStan (440) | ||
| 61177 | 2002-07-10 02:28:00 | Floppy drives still have their use, when you want to transfer only small files. May I also suggest adding a 52x cdrom drive in addition to your writer, you will find it comes in handy now and then for games :D ;) ;\ |
Sam H (525) | ||
| 61178 | 2002-07-10 03:39:00 | Ooops, forgot about that. I got a spare DVD ROM lying round... 48X CD Rom I think, it'll do. | Mr. Insanity (957) | ||
| 61179 | 2002-07-10 03:47:00 | I've already got 2 pre build computers...I wanna build one my self. The floppy drive is only $30, I may as well get it. They're handy for little files. I might want to transfer some files from my dads computer too (which doesn't have a CD-R) |
Mr. Insanity (957) | ||
| 61180 | 2002-07-10 06:49:00 | www.computerpulse.co.nz have cheap parts. They are online only and I have ordered from them on 2 occasions and found them to be good both times. | Elwin Way (229) | ||
| 61181 | 2002-07-10 06:59:00 | Some time ago John Calvert created the hardware list (with a lot of help from the forum) and I hosted it. It hasn't been updated in the last few months but it's still up there in cyberspace www.details.co.nz |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 61182 | 2002-07-10 07:06:00 | Another site created by a Press F1 poster is http://www.unleash.co.nz/ He's got a neat little form for working out what you need. | Heather P (163) | ||
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