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Good Comp? Good Company??

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Armistad123

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Hey guys, im in need of a new comp and ive got about 1500-1600 $ to spend, and i dont want to build my own comp (ill prolly mess it up or something). Well, my friend referred me to www.abspc.com to go and price up a comp(by the way, has any1 bought from them before?? if so are they reliable??) and here is what i came up with.

ICUE CX-2628 Mid Tower ATX Case with 350Watts Power Supply -
Asus A7N8X Deluxe nForce2 Chipset | 6 USB 2.0, ata133, 8X AGP, 400MHz fsb, LAN
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB DDR DVI/TV 8X AGP
AMD Athlon XP 2800+/333 FSB Barton
Dynatron High-End Microfin Cooler w/ 5300 RPM Fan
Corsair DDR400 512MB PC-3200 C2 XMS (2 pieces of this)
Seagate 120GB 7200rpm SERIAL ATA Barracuda
LITE-ON 16x DVD 48x CD-ROM Drive (Black)
Lite On 52x24x52 CD-RW Black
Creative Inspire Dolby 5.1 5200 5 Speakers w/Subwoofer

and it comes with some games, Microsoft Works 7.0, Microsoft XP home, and a wireless mouse and keyboard.
I didnt get a monitor because i have a 17 inch flag panel at home already.

This priced up to 1625$, hows it sound???


Thanks
 
here is what i reccommend telling them to change. drop the 9800 256mb, waste of money, and get a 9700 pro, taht will bring price down by about 200 bucks at least and you will most likely not notice any drop in performance. if you want more speed in the hard drive, might i reccomend the Western Digital Raptor. it is 10,000 rpm serial ata with 5 year warrenty. also, you might want windows 2000 pro over xp home, 2k is faster. if you can save money by not getting works, then do so and download openoffice.org and it will give you more stuff for free and is legal and reads microsofts files. you could also save some money by getting a barton 2500 and o/c it to a 2800.

hope this helps

btw, that stores prices are kinda high
 
You'd be getting ripped off some. Of course, that's true anytime you buy a pre-made system. It's a better deal than a SONY Vaio... how 'bout that?

As for the quality of that company, check this site:
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1431.html

Looks like they have a 7.98 out of 10 rating based on 150 reviews. Not bad.
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
here is what i reccommend telling them to change. drop the 9800 256mb, waste of money, and get a 9700 pro, taht will bring price down by about 200 bucks at least and you will most likely not notice any drop in performance. then use the money you save to get them to give you 2 512mb sticks of cosair ddr400 RAM xms and then you will have a gig of memory for games like 1942 and simcity4. if you want more speed in the hard drive, might i reccomend the Western Digital Raptor. it is 10,000 rpm serial ata with 5 year warrenty. also, you might want windows 2000 pro over xp home, 2k is faster. if you can save money by not getting works, then do so and download openoffice.org and it will give you more stuff for free and is legal and reads microsofts files. you could also save some money by getting a barton 2500 and o/c it to a 2800.

hope this helps

btw, that stores prices are kinda high
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All good advice. You might even be able to get away with an even lower video card, but I dunno....
 
Corsair DDR400 512MB PC-3200 C2 XMS (2 pieces of this)

Im getting 2 pieces of the 512 ram already, and yea i can probably get rid of the Microsoft Works.

Any more opinions/recomendations would be cool
 
About getting that Athlong XP 2500+ and overclocking it to 2800....is it very easy to do?? If i was to try i would have no clue what im doing. I dont really want to mess too much with the computer (you dont get warranty if you overclock it right??)

But, if i got the 2800, how much could i easily overclock that to??

Trying to figure out my options, thanks.
 
Originally posted by: Armistad123
About getting that Athlong XP 2500+ and overclocking it to 2800....is it very easy to do?? If i was to try i would have no clue what im doing. I dont really want to mess too much with the computer (you dont get warranty if you overclock it right??)

But, if i got the 2800, how much could i easily overclock that to??

Trying to figure out my options, thanks.
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you can do it in less than 15 keystrokes in the bios, a siple changing of the clock multiplyer, they have the same core and are basically the same chip.
 
This wont mess up the computer or anything, like making it overheat??

What kind of speeds could i get with the 2800+ with just the fans i have listed??
 
Just checked out Cyberpower and priced up a comp with the same stuff i listed and it was about 5$ cheaper hehe. Would you think CyberPower is more reliable than ABS??
 
I would stick with ABS. Although I prefer to build my own systems and have never bought from them, I have heard only good things about them. And they've been around a long time.
 
I got bored, so i went and priced up a comp with an Intel Processor instead. Here is what i got.

Apacer Handy Drive 128MB USB Flash Hard Drive - RETAIL (FREE)
ANTEC Performance PLUSVIEW LE (Limited Edition) Model PLUSVIEW1000AMG LE - with Side Window Snap-On(case)
COOLER MASTER TLF-R82 (TLF-R82-E1) ( Purple )Neon L.E.D. Fan. Size: 80 x 80 x 25 mm. 4 LEDs implemen
Allied TRUE 450W Power Supply AL-B450EATX w/ Two Fans
Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000Pro, Intel 865PE chipset Springdale for Intel P4 ATX motherboard Retail
Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz 512k 800MHz FSB | socket 478 w/ Hyper Threading Technology
Intel Original CPU fan for Socket 478 Processor
Corsair DDR400 512MB PC-3200 C2 XMS | (extreme memory speed series) 2 PIECES
Seagate 120GB 7200rpm SERIAL ATA Barracuda | ST3120026AS - OEM
Sapphire Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB DVI/TV 8X AGP | (powered by ATI)

And a cd burner and dvd rom, this was without microsoft works.

Came out to 1600$ (Also from ABS)


Would you guys recomend this computer over the original setup i posted, why or why not?
 
bump, could anyone give some input on the above system compared to the one originally posted??

Difference in performance? advise?? suggestions?
 
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