best barebone under $1300 excluding drives and cd roms???

[ioric18]

Wat's up guys,

I'm kinda new to the forum in a - only read and hardly post way.
A big Hello to everyone !!!!
As what's stated on the topic, plz feel free to shoot me with any opinion.
My current choice is
AMD64 3200+ with Asus K8v, twin corsair, ATI 9800Pro and Antec Sonata case
this is only a thought, but I do prefer AMD64 (no offence to anyone.......=)

Thanks in advance.

 

[ForceCalibur]

I'd wait until the Nforce 3 250 comes out, but spending 1.3k is INSANE for a desktop.

 

[Monoman]

Originally posted by: ForceCalibur
I'd wait until the Nforce 3 250 comes out, but spending 1.3k is INSANE for a desktop.

not really.. I have just about that not icluding optical drives in my A64 3200+

 

[WackyDan]

Originally posted by: Monoman

Originally posted by: ForceCalibur
I'd wait until the Nforce 3 250 comes out, but spending 1.3k is INSANE for a desktop.

not really.. I have just about that not icluding optical drives in my A64 3200+

I agree.....I've got at least 1300 into my Shuttle XPC.... Which is not the fastest, but a good value at the time.

Part of the 1300 included XP pro OEM, and Norton AV, and ACDSEE 6.0. I could have spent another 300 at least on a faster proc, double the memory and larger HD>

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I put 2.3k into my system. Minus stuff that wasn't nessacary for a working computer(nonstock hsf, dvd-r burner, etc..). I think i'd be like 2.05k. I lub my computer and things would turn violent if someone looked at it funny...

 

[ioric18]

Thanks for the feedback, anyone else has any cool idea??

 

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