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Brother gave me $1600 for system!!!

Antec Sonata $100
NEC 8X Dual-layer DVD Burner $80
6800 GT $400
Cheap (but not crappy Socket 754 mobo) Epox nF3 250Gb $100
Athlon 64 3200 $200
WinXP Pro $120
17" LCD $400
1GB RAM DDR400 $150
$120GB 7200 RPM HDD $100

$1650
 
Originally posted by: FFactory0x
umm what about ram. Speakers etc
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$100 anycase and psu he likes,
$80 Nec Duallayer DVD Burner
$400 6800GT
$85 Abit NF7-S
$110 160GB Seagate
$85 512 DDR3200 Mushkin
$100 Athlon 3000+ or a mobile u want to oc
WinXP Pro $120 or bittorent edition 😉
$500 LCD
MX510 Mouse and a Logitech Elite Keyboard - 70ish

and the leftover change for the speakers, I myself recomend just getting a nice stereo receiver and using speakers with that.
 
wetcat, 512MB isn't really enough if he wants to do video editing.

He never said anything about gaming, so why does he need a 6800GT? Sure I love mine, but if you arent gaming it isnt worth spending the premium price when a 9800pro is half the price and more than enough for most people.

Rather than spend $400 on a card, spend $200 and put the other $200 into an A64 and/or RAM.

All that being said, if he isn't gaming and wants to get into movie editing, he may wanna think about an intel. yes I know, i love AMD, but my system is for gaming.

Let's try something like this...

CASE - Antec Life Style case w/ 380W PS - $99
DVDRW - NEC 8x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW - $77
HD#1 - 120GB Western Digital 7200RPM 8MB cache (IDE) - $84
HD#2 - 36GB Western Digital 10000RPM Raptor - $118
KEYBOARD/MOUSE - Logitech Wireless Duo - $69
RAM - 2x Mushkin 512MB PC3200 - $158
MONITOR - Samsung 170N 17" LCD - $369
MOBO - Asus P4C800 (875 chipset) - $160
CPU - P4C 3.0Ghz - $223
SPEAKERS - Creative Labs SBS450 4.1 speakers - $43
VIDEO CARD - MSI ATi 9800pro - $197
TOTAL (w/ shipping from newegg) - $1652

You could shave a little off by getting a cheaper keyboard combo or getting a 2.4 or 2.8 CPU.
 
Video Editing? Get a PowerMac G4:

$1,199.00 (Educational price for students)

1.25GHz PowerPC G4
1MB L3 cache
256MB DDR333 SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo Drive
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
Includes both Mac OS X and Mac OS 9


with a
NU 17" 16ms LCD (w/built-in speakers), $339

There ya go, a great G4 video editing rig!
 
not a lot of video editing. Like home movies and stuff. He doesnt know what hes talking about . Ill prolly get him the pinnicle maker
 
yea running 2.5-2.6Ghz on an AthlonXP (barton core 640KB) of total cache will be more cost effective for sure. If you can also run your entire Front Side Bus at @ least 217Mhz, you're system should be pretty good 🙂.
 
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