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~$800 to spend on new system

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calisoldier83

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I want to build a new computer right now I'm on an Athlon 2200+, 512 ram, asus p3b-f. I'm not sure if I should go Intel or stay athlon? I want to be able to play some games like half life 2 and new ones coming out. Does anyone have any recommendations? It looks like the dell deals have come to a screeching halt so I guess I'm going to have start from scratch.
 
Hmmm I would go with an AMD 64 3000 winchester with stock HSF.

A non sli but, pci-e compatible mobo. I would go DFI or Asus

Try to recycle your hard drive.

Some case whatever you want.

Corsair 1gig value ram

Probably a x800xl graphics card or something along the lines.

 
CPU: 3000+ Venice ($150 hopefully)
Mobo: DFI NF4 Ultra-D ($130)
GPU: ATI X800XL ($300)
RAM: 1GB Corsair VS ($80)
HDD: 120 GB Seagate SATA ($80)
Case: Your preference
PSU: A quality brand over 400W should suffice ($80)

Total: $820 without case. Are you also going to need a monitor, keyboard/mouse, CD/DVD, OS, etc? Are you going to be able to salvage anything (at least temporarily) from the other PC. You may be able to cut back a bit on the motherboard (regular nForce4) if necessary.
 
mouse keyboard will stay the same. New monitor when a deal comes along. I have a 150GB Maxtor hard drive that I'm going to use until a deal comes up for a SATA drive also.
 
Get a low end venice or winchester AMD64 to keep the price down, EITHER a 6600GT or x800xl pcix16, a pci-e mobo ( i just got an asus a8n-e), and you can probably do the rest....value ram, yadayadayada.
 
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