Hello everyone. Just decided to come up with what i would like in my next gaming computer, and so i went online and pretty much found everything. However, i would still like to reduce the price tag on it, so i've come here to see if anyone can help with reducing the price of anything. Total adds up to a little over $600, looking to get that down to mid or low $500's. Case- ATX Cobra computer case http://www.atxcases.com/item.asp?id=19 Price: $46 CPU- AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Windsor 2.4GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Processorhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103749 Price: $90 DVD Drive- Sony NEC Optiarc SuperMulti 18x OEM DVD Burner http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...p;Sku=O451-1000 Price: $30 Hard Drive- HP 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822332001 Price: $96 Memory- CORSAIR 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM ECC Registered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Server Memory http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820145310 Price: $70 Motherboard- nForce 650i Ultra NVIDA Socket 775 ATX http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...&CatId=1533 Price: $109 Power Supply- 500-watt Ultra X-Finity http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...ku=ULT31846%20K Price:$50 Video Card- GeForce 7900GS 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported Video Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814133186 Price: $110 Price of main computer: $601-Crap. If you need anymore info, the links should help. Thanks, have a nice day.
incompatable RAM/board/CPU. try - Ax2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819103206 cheap d9 based RAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820146565 board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813138082 hdd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822148261 PSU http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=PS-E5140GH and that should all work w/ the rest of your parts being OK. I'll check better though tomorrow I have school tomorrow so I need to get some sleep. also if you want a mroe polished looking case without so much cheap plastic consider... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811119106 I'll be blunt though, I like polished loooking cases more so than "OMFG1337" so i'm biased in that regard
yeh that should work reasonably well.double the RAM, comparable CPU and around $100 USD less if i'm not mistaken. FYI you had 'DDR1 RAM" on a "DDR2 based socket 775 intel board" and wanted to go with a "socket 940 AMD Athlon with a DD2 memory controller" terms quotes for easier differentiation. if you can budget i, it might be worh while to go c2d but probably not.
Dang Xlink, your a legend. Thanks for the help, you saved me some money, i mean if i had gone with what i had found, i would be beatin the walls in with a shovel when i found it didn't work I think i'm gonna see if i can get Xlink is a legend on my case, how cool would that be.
you don't need to do anything of the sort, I've done this for a bunch of people. I don't expect anything at all. not rep and I truly don't care about creds(see number).
Hey xlink, thanks for the help again. I've got one last question if you still get to respond then i think i'm set. Where can i find an inexpensive OS? i want to stick with windows, so i decided getting XP would be less expensive, but is there anyway that i can pay less than $100 for the OS? I'm pretty much doing this to show my dad how much better it would be if i built the computer instead of getting a dell one, so anything to reduce cost wiill help. And There's a negative credit cult? That's festive.
there is virtually no way to get a legitimate copy of windows for under $100. though if you can find a seed for it, XS OS2, which is based largely off of XP and 2000, is a free and legal option so long as you have a legitimate license for any microsoft operating system. other alternatives include: any version of linux(small learning curve and basically no gaming, great performance and reliability however) any version of BSD and a few other things and yes to get a comparable system from the likes of Dell you'de have to spend around $500 more. as for the neg cred thing, there is a 'steal creds item' you can use it to take others c reds. It works 2/3 times. the other 1/3 times i fails and you loose twice as much as you tried to take. when the item came out it caused an uproar. some people bought like 5000 of the item and then just stole randomly until they got negative creds and drained every other person.
Hmmm... Biostar? This manufacturer keeps popping up everywhere on these American tech forums/sites.... but I've never heard of them beyond the ----ty OEM stuff they make which is available in New Zealand...
