hello scottyb, i rember telling you that we could build you a much beter computer for small fortune you were giving to gatway, i see your ready now
just go to
pricewatch to get an eye for the prices.
as for a motherboard, get one of the new kt133a boards for the overclocking potential, espesialy if you have crucial ram. there are only 3 out right now so not much choice there, though i recomend the abit kt7a-raid for about $150. that brings me to my next point if you want to spend some money as you mentioned in the last post, get raid, the speed is realy nice.
the t-bird should cost ya about $300.
a mans case is a presonal thing shop around on pricewatch a bit and find one that looks nice for your, at least 2 fan mounts and a amd aproved powersuply are the only real musts, easy to work with features and quality construction are nice to have, elan vital and super-micro are some of my favorates but its easy to spend as little as $50 on a case.
you might want to compare a geforce card closely with radion ddr for $120 before you throw you money out on a new card, or beter yet just by a radion and sell it off if you realy think you nead a faster card that doenst look as good but costs a lot more.
as for dvd, many good ones out there find the best for about $100 and windows me can be had for about the same.
you'll find a pair of imb deskstars for &300 to work well together in raid and give you more than enough storage, probably a sound blaster 5.1 $80 with some nice speakers; klipsh, altec-lancing, or cambrage for well less than $200. might as well spring for a 3com or other nice nec for about $80. and your choice ofof your choice a mouse $40, flopy $20, keyboard $30, leveing you over $1000 to spend on the monitor and still spend under the price of the gateway. granted yopu may still want to figure in the price of ram, mebey a cdrw and a printer, ms office200 or whatever, but that still leaves you with more than enough for a nice 19in
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