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Pewters cost less than $442 now // CommunitytalisanJun 11, 2006, 7:04pm
....and that includes 7.75% tax and Fedex shipping btw. Oh,also, I did not
choose the lowest prices on all of this. You can go lower. The only thing not in this list is a monitor and printer. You already have those! And, you don't need a floppy disk anymore... almost, and you already have a keyboard and mouse, but I included them just because! This pewter will work great, has WinXP Sp2 and well, it's only shortcoming is the video is integrated onto the motherboard. I just wanted to let you folks know what is available out there at extremely reasonable prices. Not trying to PO anyone! MWAVE BIEN (BLACK) MIDDLE TOWER W/430W ATX POWER SUPPLY 4x5.25" 2x3.5" 6x3.5"(hidden) W/ FRONT USB CONNECTOR NO EXTRA FAN $29.00 SKU: BA21001 - SONY CDU5225 BLACK 52X CDROM EIDE INTERNAL(Bare drive) NO EXTRA AUDIO CABLE NO AUDIO/DATA CABLE $13.00 SKU: AA10795 - - HITACHI/IBM 80GB UATA-100 14R9246/0A30210 7200RPM 2MB 8.5MS (Bare drive) NO DATA CABLE $44.90 SKU: AA21970 - MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP HOME W/SP2 (OEM/DSP)#N09-01625/01624*Must be Purchased w/Hardware!!* $81.00 SKU: AA15060 LOGITECH BUNDLE: DELUXE DESKTOP PS2 KEYBOARD & OPTICAL MOUSE (Black) (White box) (*Regular $15.5 - $3 Mwave Instant Rebate = $12.5, While Supplies Last!) $12.50 SKU: 3693849 ASUS P5P800-MX BUNDLE W/ RETAILED CELERON D 346 3.06G (533Mhz) MWAVE 1GB DDR400 ASSEMBLE/TEST BUNDLE $201.62 SKU: MB-BA22192 -BA21960 -BA20959 -TEST SONY 1.44MB BLACK FLOPPY DRIVE #MPF9201/131 NO FDD CABLE $8.90 SKU: AA27230 - Sub Total $390.92 Shipping & Handling Calculator $20.12 (Fedex ground) Sales Tax (Orange County, CA - 7.75%) $30.30 Total $441.34 data26Jun 12, 2006, 5:49am
I don't know.
When I tallied the total for mine. I bought all the parts myself never ordered any of if and put it togeather myself and still the price was a little over $2,000 when i was done. windows xp $100 My mother board cost a little over $100 My sound card cost a little over $200 My video card cost a little over $400 My cpu cost around $800 My 60 gig hard drive cost a little over $100 I wish i knew where these cheaper parts are at that are actuly worth buying. You have a web site where you got all that from? [View Quote] baroJun 12, 2006, 6:02am
$2000 for that??
I built a new gaming machine to play oblivion.. it was about $500, $200 of that being the video card. The rest being a motherboard, cpu, and a nice new HD. sw comitJun 12, 2006, 6:37am
You got a lot of enthusiast gear in that setup there, or I'm at least
assuming that based on the prices...I believe the topic was more about just how low-you-can-go and still get a workable computer. The bang for the buck is a steep steep curve when it comes to the cutting end stuff. $200 sound card? Can get a pretty good one for around 70. $400 video card? First a current generation card yes. But a previous gen are still very fast for around 200. $800 CPU? Yikes. Can get a good one for $300. $100 should got you waaaay more than 60. Shoulda been closer to 200-300GB. All that was for a standard computer, not even budget rate. Check newegg.com for prices. [View Quote] sw comitJun 12, 2006, 6:41am
Oh yea speaking of low prices, you can get one for less than $442 if you
decide to go with an assembler instead. I know Dell usually carries the budget line for $300 plus shipping and tax. [View Quote] angelicusJun 12, 2006, 7:57pm
If any of you are interested
www.tigerdirect.com is great for barebone and cheap deals Whoever it was that said their computer cost $2000, you got ripped. My system cost Me less than a $1000 and I have seen some pretty decent systems for the prices the other guys are quoting. Anyway. I just thought this might help. Oh, piece of advice, if you buy a dell, don't expect to be able to do much with it. My wife had one, and the case is specificall designed to be pretty much non-upgradeable. If you can do it, my advice, order/buy the parts yourself, and piece it together. If you are unsure, ask in here, or go to a store like Fry's Electronics, or as above Tiger Direct, and get a barebones system. These are basically a case, with all the parts already done, without things like monitors, keyboards etc, but lets face it, if your sitting here reading this, you already have them (lol). [View Quote] joemanJun 12, 2006, 10:07pm
I dont know WHAT you're talking about with the dells. I've delt with
tons of dells, from their low range desktop models up to their enterprise server products, and everything is built up to standards. You can upgrade memory, drives, processor, add in any PCI, PCIE, PCIX, ISA, whatever cards. If you wanted to you could swap out the motherboard with a different one too that you could buy off newegg. Building a computer is really not a good trick to teach a beginner. There's just too much to take into account. Dell is an excellent way to go if you're starting out looking for a good deal, or like me, and just looking for a good deal. I personally *can* build my own machines, but prefer to pick them up from dell. I've got a warranty that dell provides. My machine breaks? Send it back. You cant do that with a home built computer. Plus, their next day delivery and business service agreements have saved my ass a number of times at work. Seriously, dell is not a bad thing. -Joe [View Quote] annette.Jun 12, 2006, 10:24pm
Hi Joeman,
I'm Angel's wife...the one who had the Dell lol. Not everything in my pc was able to be upgraded like you're saying. Maybe it was the type that I had, not sure. I couldn't even replace the cd rom drive without literally destroying the case, so I got another pc. Actually had Angelicus build one for me. They may not be the same for everyone, but the one I had was that way. [View Quote] angelicusJun 13, 2006, 12:51am
What I mean was, was that yes you can do all the things with Dell, but thats
when you buy it, once you get it however, it leaves very little to be able to do anything with. However, I do agree with you on the fact that if you dont know what your doing, then Dell is a good place to start as they do have quality parts. My only reason for suggesting Tiger Direct was because of the pricing and this obviously seems a concern for the person. Not trying to start anything here, just offering help is all. [View Quote] captain mad mikeJun 13, 2006, 1:15am
Swapping out the mobo in a dell requires you to change the PSU as well. They
changed the pinouts on the connectors so that you can't throw normal ATX motherboards/PSUs in their computers. Comps aren't that bad, I think mine's probably worth a little over $1k after I upgraded it, and while the gear isn't bleeding-edge, its still got plenty of life for it. Unless next year games start needing more than 512MB of graphics memory.... -CMM [View Quote] data26Jun 13, 2006, 1:30am
"Whoever it was that said their computer cost $2000, you got ripped."
That was me and the prices i listed are true and i did not get ripped off becasue everywhre i looked the prices for the parts where in the same price range. The cpu i went for was 3 ghz amd athalon the video card i went for was RADEON 9800 XT 256MB the sound card i went for was Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro And yes, the 60 gig drive was a little over 100 bucks, when i got that way back in 2003 Note, i got all these when they came out. talisanJun 13, 2006, 2:07am
www.mwave.com, often beats newegg, but I always comparison shop.
That spec'd PC was a budget PC... I got good parts! I went for Sony, and Asus, Intel, Logitech, and IBM... very reliable stuff! I used to be an ABIT fan, but they cot flaky, and I know my ISP uses ASUS for all over their near 1000 servers... and every MB by them has been rock solid that I have had. Yes, I could have spec'd an even cheaper PC... but I didn't like the brands. sw comitJun 13, 2006, 4:29am
And as I so hatefully found out, you can't change the PSU without probably
needing a new case. Because the dell cases are shaped around the parts inside. If you can find a PSU with exact same port positions you win though, but I sure couldn't :P Course if you don't mine scooting it back a few inches and letting it dangle there, then its fine... [View Quote] roadkillJun 13, 2006, 4:45am
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http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/power_supplies/selector/dell.htm
simplaza.netJun 13, 2006, 10:04am
I used to have a bad opinion of Dell, with its stereotypical asian
support centers and crap bloated systems. Especially since my Dell computer came with fucked nVidia drivers that basically killed Windows. And then i got this Inspiron laptop <3 Dell are becoming more innovative i guess, more like Apple (not to mention the fact that they're pushing to have OSX licensed for them), plus their displays are grand. I especially like the technology they're starting to put into it, such as the battery's inbuilt charge indicator and the most genius thing, the ability to boot to a second partition with the mediaDirect button. Agreed though, they do tend to take away the customaizationability , they're too arrogant about their own mods. [View Quote] angelicusJun 13, 2006, 8:10pm
ahhh, then that explains it. My apologies, if you got them when they first
came out that explains the heavy pricing. I personally still would not have paid $2,000 for a computer, but then again the computer I built a year ago wasn't that bad, cost me $500 and was out of date a year later. I personally try to balance it out. I don't need a computer that is cutting edge, but I do believe in buying the best you can get within the budget you have. So again my apologies for the comment, but I still don't agree with the high price tags they put on new graphics cards etc. [View Quote] sweJun 15, 2006, 5:41pm
lol! i got a macbook pro from london for just over $3,000, and finally
came to the conclusion that without a copy of windows XP, apples are shit! sure they're pretty, quite well built, and such, but from my point of view, $2000 for a proper computer seams like quite the fair deal. anyway, next time i get a pc, i'm going to the states! >_< -SWE talisanJun 16, 2006, 3:56am
ASUS M2NPV-VM nVIDIA GeForce 6150 CHIPSET SERIAL ATA300 MICRO ATX FORM
FACTOR 1xPCI-E(X16)/1xPCI-E(X1)/2xPCI/4xDDR2 W/INTEGRATED VGA,SATA2 RAID,LAN(Gb),USB 2.0 & AUDIO (CPU TYPE:AMD ATHLON 64 / SEMPRON - SOCKET AM2) AMD SEMPRON 2800+ - MANILA MWAVE 2GB DDR2 533 (1GB x 2) $284.34 $284.34 SKU: BA22827 -BA22672 -BA20518 -BA20518 MWAVE BIEN (BIEGE) MIDDLE TOWER W/430W ATX POWER SUPPLY 4x5.25" 2x3.5" 6x3.5"(hidden) W/ FRONT USB CONNECTOR NO EXTRA FAN $29.00 $29.00 SKU: BA12002 - SONY CDU5225 BEIGE 52X CDROM EIDE INTERNAL (Bare drive) NO EXTRA AUDIO CABLE NO AUDIO/DATA CABLE $13.00 $13.00 SKU: AA08442 - - SONY 1.44MB BEIGE FLOPPY DRIVE (Bare Drive) #MPF920/Z/161 NO FDD CABLE $8.90 $8.90 SKU: AA00695 - HITACHI 80GB 0A30356/13G0255 SATA150 8MB 7200RPM (Bare drive) *SATA Power cord is required NO DATA CABLE NO POWER CORD $46.90 $46.90 SKU: AA24960 - - LOGITECH BUNDLE: DELUXE DESKTOP PS2 KEYBOARD & OPTICAL MOUSE (Black) (White box) (*Regular $15.5 - $3 Mwave Instant Rebate = $12.5, While Supplies Last!) $12.50 $12.50 SKU: 3693849 Shipping & Handling Calculator $19.48 Sales Tax (Orange County, CA - 7.75%) $30.58 Total $444.70 This is a WOW system! I plan on buying this... for my linux server. :) No windows! Have to get linux seperately. But if you already had a copy of windows, this would be an awesome upgrade for some folks. :) starheartJun 16, 2006, 6:14pm
starheartJun 16, 2006, 6:21pm
looks like if you want over 400w you need to pay over $100 for those
supplies. What a rip! For that much money you can almost get a goldplated one with dual fans and configurable power connectors elsewhere. [View Quote] starheartJun 16, 2006, 6:30pm
sw comitJun 16, 2006, 6:47pm
Yea, sort of pricey. You don't want to skimp on the PSU though, it's a
critical foundation component that everything depends on. I won't spend less than $70 on mine personally; not that price = quality, but that's the general going rate of the good ones anyway. - Com [View Quote] talisanJun 16, 2006, 7:14pm
I don't have this system yet, I intend to order it for a server, so graphics
were not on my list, hence the integrated Geforce chipset. However, I do have a A7N8X-X Asus MB here with an Anthlon XP 2600+ with 1Gb ram and an aging Geforce4 Ti4600.... and I get near 27fps in Serene with it at 200 vis. It's also my current Windows World server. So, if I were to install Windows onto the machine I listed in my previous post, I am thus boosting my cpu to a 2800+, doubling my ram to 2Gb, and using a far better video chipset(built in) and a SATA 80gb harddrive instead of the aging 16Gb IBM drive I'm using now. I'd say there would be a huge improvement. But I suppose it all depends on what you are already using now. [View Quote] talisanJun 16, 2006, 7:27pm
Oh, also, the system I outlined also uses the new AM2 CPU pinout, and the
whole system is easily upgraded. So, over the coming months buying a couple upgrades could vastly improve it. And in the mean time, prices keep dropping, and you haven't broken your piggy bank. EVGA 256-P2-N445-LX GEFORCE 7300GT 256MB DDR2 PCI-E w/HDTV & DVI $99.90 CREATIVE LABS SOUND BLASTER SB0610 AUDIGY 4 24-BIT 7.1 PCI (Retail) $74.64 AMD ATHLON 64 3800+ (ADA3800CNBOX) W/512KB CACHE 90NM (ORLEANS) 64-BIT SOCKET AM2 RETAIL BOXED W/COOLING FAN (3 YEARS WARRANTY) (*Limit 2pcs/customer) $143.17 |