I always like a thread like this every now and then. Lets see what you paid and what you are running at
Soyo Dragon case w/ keyboard 30$
Microsoft Optical mouse 30$
plextor px-504a 4x dvdrw 70$
lite-on 52x cdrom 20$
Barton Athlon XP 2800+@12.5 x200=2.425ghz 50$ (100$ for the cpu and a kt600 that i sold for 50$
)
Sapphire Radeon 9800 pro@ 400mhz core clock/ 350mhz memory clock 210$@newegg
standard floppy 10$
DFI NF2 Ultra Infinity 100$
Audigy 2 zs 30$ (Was 30$ off w/ motherboard purchase and a 50$ MIR I bought the DFI then)
3x 2700 333mhz 512MB DDR Kingston valueram@I cant remember 195$
ATA 133 card 30$
21 inch flat screen Sun Sony Trinitron monitor 150$ (purchased from work from a corporate buyout)
Maxtor 160gb 95$
Seagate 120gb 75$
Western Digital 20gb 30$ (for my main OS to keep it speedy)
Antec True Blue PSU 90$
Windows XP 80$ (from fs/ft forum)
standing fan 10$ (a poor mans cooling system..that works very well actually)
So all in all with OS and Monitor this stuff cost 1305$. Not too bad for a top of the line system. I am happy with all my purchases and couldn't be happier with the performance of it all. I guess you linux guys got a one up on us though
. Post what you got!
Soyo Dragon case w/ keyboard 30$
Microsoft Optical mouse 30$
plextor px-504a 4x dvdrw 70$
lite-on 52x cdrom 20$
Barton Athlon XP 2800+@12.5 x200=2.425ghz 50$ (100$ for the cpu and a kt600 that i sold for 50$
Sapphire Radeon 9800 pro@ 400mhz core clock/ 350mhz memory clock 210$@newegg
standard floppy 10$
DFI NF2 Ultra Infinity 100$
Audigy 2 zs 30$ (Was 30$ off w/ motherboard purchase and a 50$ MIR I bought the DFI then)
3x 2700 333mhz 512MB DDR Kingston valueram@I cant remember 195$
ATA 133 card 30$
21 inch flat screen Sun Sony Trinitron monitor 150$ (purchased from work from a corporate buyout)
Maxtor 160gb 95$
Seagate 120gb 75$
Western Digital 20gb 30$ (for my main OS to keep it speedy)
Antec True Blue PSU 90$
Windows XP 80$ (from fs/ft forum)
standing fan 10$ (a poor mans cooling system..that works very well actually)
So all in all with OS and Monitor this stuff cost 1305$. Not too bad for a top of the line system. I am happy with all my purchases and couldn't be happier with the performance of it all. I guess you linux guys got a one up on us though