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  1. Plan-B Aug 13th 2008 edited
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    Edit as of Aug. 16.
    all new stuff

    Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

    Newegg.com - MSI TurboStream 600W 600W ATX 12V V2.2/ EPS 12V/ BTX Power Supply 90 - 264 V Safety / EMI Approvals: FCC certification - Power Supplies

    Newegg.com - NZXT Apollo Black SECC Steel Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases

    Newegg.com - APEVIA CF12SL-UBL 120mm Blue LED Case Fan - Case Fans

    Newegg.com - Intel Pentium E2200 Allendale 2.2GHz 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops

    Newegg.com - Sony NEC Optiarc Black 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model DDU1615/B2s - CD / DVD Drives

    Newegg.com - Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

    Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives

    Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 1010 Radeon HD 2600XT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards
  2. MikeWilson Aug 13th 2008
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    that's like the cheapest decent system ever.

    But from what I'm reading (and I'm not a huge hardware guy, so don't take my words as gold - but I'm in the market for myself) that system is likely not going to last you that long.
  3. Plan-B Aug 13th 2008
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    so it would be a decent system... but won't last long?
    why do you think that?
  4. Iceberg Aug 13th 2008
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    The processor seems like the part that'll seem the oldest in a few years. 2.4 ghz isn't too fast.
  5. Plan-B Aug 13th 2008
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    i could always replcace it.. couldn't i?
  6. Iceberg Aug 14th 2008
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    of course!
  7. Plan-B Aug 14th 2008
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    sweet!
    i've looked into different parts and i'm at around 506 bucks.

    i still have not got an answer about needing any disc drives... lol like for putting cd's into?
  8. MikeWilson Aug 15th 2008
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    Yeah just get a dvd r-/+RW drive or two.

    Blu Ray ones you can get later.
  9. Plan-B Aug 16th 2008
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    yeah. creepingdeath came over and helped me with all that.

    now i might be getting an even cheaper video card.. hat do you guys think? decent? i won't be gaming.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102755
  10. Fredrik Aug 16th 2008
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    First of all, what are you going to be using it for?

    If you're not going to be gaming or doing heavy video editing you can get away with a really cheap video card. Some photo and design software are beginning to take more advantage of the graphic card... so it would be great to know what you're intending to be using the computer for.

    I don't have much knowledge when it comes to motherboards, so I can't really comment on that. The processors 1 MB cache might be at the minimum end, but once again depending on usage. The speed of the processor (2.2 GHz) is not the most important thing to pay attention too, it's just like megapixels in cameras - it's mostly sales talk that has gone a bit astray.

    To me 160GB hard drive seems way to small, but then again I have close to 3TB (3000 GB) in my machine...

    The RAM, DVD-drive and case looks good from what I can tell

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