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Please check out my PC Part layout before I go out and buy them!

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Hey, this is it, the final layout. It will be for programming, music, DVD's, Unix, etc etc. No gaming on this beast (as you can tell 🙂).

All prices in CANADIAN!

Lian Li PC-60 18" Aluminum Case - $169
Enermax 350W ATX P4 Power Supply - $69
Volcano 7 CPU Fan w/Copper Base - $32
Pioneer 40x16x DVD Drive Tray - $69
Maxtor 40.9GB HD 7200rpm 2MB - $119
Asus A7V333 KT333-Raid Chipset - $209
AMD® Athlon?XP 1700+ Box - $139
Sony 19" CPD-G410R .24 1880x1440 - $589
Logitech 2 button PS2 mouse - $15
Logitech PS2 keyboard - $29
D-Link 530TX+ 10/100 network card - $19
Matrox Millennium G550DH 32MB - $155


Total: $1613 (CANADIAN DOLLARS!)

As you can see, I'm going more for quality than performance. I think i've done a good job. You guys have helped a lot as well 🙂

I'm missing ram up there, because I'll just take a stick of pc2100 256 megs from this PC. save me $100 🙂. I'll take sound card and speakers from this PC as well.

Anything screwey? I'm going to buy the parts next friday when I go to vancouver.
 
Everything looks good except for the video card... the Radeon 8500LE 128MB (~$195) might be a better deal instead...
 
I think that yes you have done a good job but the way I understand that you are getting the retail box CPU. Since you are why not just use the stock fan. It will be fine unless you are gonna overclock (which i think you want since you are not going for performance.)
 
agreed with Jmmsbnd007, a bigger harddrive would be nice. But thats just me, I use a lot of space, with mp3s alone i would almost max out your whole 40gb drive.
 
I would consider getting a different brand dvd rom (lite-on) if its cheaper. Also, I'd probably stick with the retail hsf unless I was going to overclock.
 
Or... go with the OEM cpu and use the volcano. Then, if you change your mind later about o/c, you can buy some better memory.

~box
 
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