Recent content by captsatch

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    New to Board, with a ? of course.

    Oldie , don't tempt me already, Newegg has a P4 3.0E retail for $183 this week. TIM, thanks again.
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    New to Board, with a ? of course.

    I did it today, and surprisingly it went off without a hitch. the Asus motherboard I bought took care of all of the hard settings automatically. it actually took longer to install xp than to assemble the hardware. I could have bought a low end Dell for nothing but I always wanted to do it and...
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    New to Board, with a ? of course.

    TIM Heres what I ended up getting. Kind of low end but upgradable. Picked up 256md ddr400 pc3200 Kingston value ram at Circuit city for $49.99 with $20 rebate today. I bought the Asus P4S800-MX for $59. for a case I ordered the Apex Case for $24. Also a fan/heatsink and two case fans. total...
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    New to Board, with a ? of course.

    TIM, Thanks for all the research, i don't know if you noticed the other tempting feature was the Vintage ships for $2.99 and the other cases ship for around $12-$16. i will most likely go a case with a better psu, this is my first build and i might as well learn how to mount a motherboard in the...
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    New to Board, with a ? of course.

    I just took a closer look at the refurb and it comes with zero parts or software, so the new one will be my choice. Asus also sells a barebones kit with same mobo called the VINTAGEI can get it for $107 shipped from Newegg, but it only has a 250 watt psu. This machine will not be used for any...
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    New to Board, with a ? of course.

    I think i am going to go with the Asus P4S800-MX . It suits most of my needs and is upgradeable. I will get the pc 3200 sdram with it for future upgrades. Being that it is a micro atx board kind of messed up my case plans, can you put a micro atx board in a ATX case? BTW the motherboard is $59...
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    New to Board, with a ? of course.

    thanks for the reply, that windowed case is pretty fancy for the money and reviewed well too. Choices, choices.
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    New to Board, with a ? of course.

    I have a P4 1.7 400mhz fsb socket 478 cpu that I want to use to build my daughter an internet box. I already have a new Maxtor 160gb ultra ata133 hard drive and an NVIDIA Geforce 2 mx400 64 mb agp video card. I also have a spare cd-rom and burner. What i am looking for is a motherboard that i...