I got $300 to build a great system...help

[chiwawa626]

I got $300 to build a great system...help
I calculated it out for axiontech.com and i can get a ecs board, case, flopy/cd, 128ram, and tbird 900 for 300 with shipping. Anyone find better? i need the stuff to come from one place only.

 

[XMan]

OK <cracks knuckles>

www.amamax.com

PCChips M817LMR (Socket A w/video, sound, and LAN) - $79
T-bird 900MHz - $74
52X Delta CD-ROM - $29
128MB Micron PC100 - $17
InWin S500 case, 250W ATX - $55
Mitsumi floppy - $14
Cooler Master DP5-5G11 HS - $13

You didn't mention keyboard, mouse, or hard drive . . . already got one? If not . . .

Seagate ST340823A 40.0 GB 5400 RPM IDE Hard Drive - $103
Microsoft Intellimouse - $15
Mitsumi PS/2 Keyboard - $9

Wihtout the HD, you're looking at about $280, so yeah, it would be about 300 shipped. Call it 450 if you needed the hard drive, keyboard, and mouse.

 

[chopstxxx]

Go to fry's in san jose, campbell, palo alto, fremont, or sunnyvale. In saturdays paper they have a BYO system for 249.
AMD athlon 1.3Ghz boxed cpu
VIA KLE133 chipset socket A interface
built in 2d/3d video
2 pci, 1 ISA, 1 AMR slots
4 5.25 bays
2 internal 3.5 bays
1.44 floppy drive
56k modem
3d sound w/ wavetable
ethernet card
uDMA 100 hardrive controller
*just install the cpu, your drives and memory to build your own system.

then add 512 pc133 sdram for 42 bux also at frys

249
+42
= 291

 

[CraigRT]

What you picked sounds good... but if it was me I'd exchange something on getting some more RAM!!

If you were to buy a Duron 800 for example and 256 RAM instead of 128.. It'd be faster than having a 900 Athlon and 128 RAM.

so.. I say get a Duron 800,850 and some more RAM (price is god-awfully low)... it's totally worth it over getting a T-Bird and less RAM..

 

[chopstxxx]

oops forgot cdrom drive
btc 52x on clearence for 24.90 plus it includes cdXpress which supposedly makes it perform like an 80x drive.