akugami
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- Feb 14, 2005
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I build computers for friends and colleagues for the price of dinner. I do support for them too. But that's for my friends and stuff.
The price they are charging you for not even top quality parts is rediculously high. I know you want piece of mind but any quality place you order it from will RMA products within 30 days of purchase if it goes bad and usually manufactorer's warranties are 1-3 years.
Seagate HD's are 5 years on OEM drives, bonus! In fact, unless you're getting a Raptor, I'd stay away from WD drives, I'd get Seagate HD's. The longer warranty should tip you off on the quality of their drives and the confidence they have in them during a time when most manufactorers are lowering the length of their warranties. I'd stay away from Maxtors. I have them in a Raid5 server and the fookers keep failing on me.
That RAM you have listed is unknown. That should send a warning flag to you right now. RAM prices are so cheap now that you can get them from name brand suppliers like Corsair, Mushkin, Kingston (among others) for $90-$110 for a 1GB kit.
I dunno if that shop you were getting it from is charging more for PCI-E motherboards and video cars but if you were to shop online for parts, the costs for PCI-E video cards are within $10-20 of AGP cards. I'd have to say get a nForce4 based motherboard and go PCI-E. The X800XL is a very nice card and is close enough to a 6800GT that it won't matter much in most games unless you're thinking of playing in high quality modes at 1600x1200 resolutions. It's also cheaper than the 6800GT but that money would be spent getting a much better motherboard that will be more future proof.
A PCI-E based Socket 939 motherboard would support dual core chips if you ever go that route and it will support any and all video cards that come out in at least the next 5 years.
NEC 3520A DVD burner.
The price they are charging you for not even top quality parts is rediculously high. I know you want piece of mind but any quality place you order it from will RMA products within 30 days of purchase if it goes bad and usually manufactorer's warranties are 1-3 years.
Seagate HD's are 5 years on OEM drives, bonus! In fact, unless you're getting a Raptor, I'd stay away from WD drives, I'd get Seagate HD's. The longer warranty should tip you off on the quality of their drives and the confidence they have in them during a time when most manufactorers are lowering the length of their warranties. I'd stay away from Maxtors. I have them in a Raid5 server and the fookers keep failing on me.
That RAM you have listed is unknown. That should send a warning flag to you right now. RAM prices are so cheap now that you can get them from name brand suppliers like Corsair, Mushkin, Kingston (among others) for $90-$110 for a 1GB kit.
I dunno if that shop you were getting it from is charging more for PCI-E motherboards and video cars but if you were to shop online for parts, the costs for PCI-E video cards are within $10-20 of AGP cards. I'd have to say get a nForce4 based motherboard and go PCI-E. The X800XL is a very nice card and is close enough to a 6800GT that it won't matter much in most games unless you're thinking of playing in high quality modes at 1600x1200 resolutions. It's also cheaper than the 6800GT but that money would be spent getting a much better motherboard that will be more future proof.
A PCI-E based Socket 939 motherboard would support dual core chips if you ever go that route and it will support any and all video cards that come out in at least the next 5 years.
NEC 3520A DVD burner.
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