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should this system cost $900???

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PrineFan

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am taking a class in which i will build computer... am obligated to use these parts... us students received this quote--- should this system cost $900?

1) 1.6G Intel P4 478 pin CPU
2) ECS P4-VXASD2 motherboard
3) 256 meg DDRAM (brand not given)
4) 300 watt ATX mid-tower case UL P4 PS (brand not given)
5) 30 Gig Samsung ATA/100 hard-drive
6) Liteon DVD ROM
7) 32 MEG NVIDIA TNT 2-chip graphics card

And the usual: floppy/modem/network card/keyboard/mouse/3 piece speakers with sub/Windows 2000 Pro OEM

No monitor included

Anyway, I went to newegg and priced the parts as best I can at around $650, and if i go with Windows XP Home, that's another $100. Any suggestions? Is the $900 a bit high, or about right??
 
that seems pretty high to me, like Dr. Smooth said you could probab;y find each part for much cheaper.


BTW you should really put a better video card than a tnt2 on a 1.6 Ghz processor, a geforce 2 or 3 would be nice...
 
Rip off!

p4 1.6 & mobo $249
300 watt antec sx1030 $99
256 mb ddr crucial $76
60 gig ibm $99
liteon dvd $70
gf2 gts-v $49
altec lansing atp 3 $60
logitech mice/keyboard $60

Total: $749
 
Hmm i'd say that is a fair price and would be a good profit for the builder.


I didn't know Samsung made HDs. How do they preform? Tell your teacher that a TNT2 doesnt go with a 1.6 P4... GF2,GF3, Radeon 7500 or Radeon 8500 sounds more like it.
 
I've got a 40gb samsung hdd... the stats on the thing sucks, but it actually runs really nice for what it is... it's only 5400 rpm, and only has half a mb of cache, but with HDTach it shows up as an average throughput of 33.something MB/s, which seems to be pretty high for a 5400 RPM drive
 
looks like some crappy components to me better of with!

K7N420= 149.00
300 watt antec sx1030 $99
256 mb ddr crucial $76
60 gig ibm $99
liteon dvd $70
altec lansing atp 3 $60
logitech mice/keyboard $79
XP1700=125.00
WIN XP =100.00
=857.00

Roughly
 
thanks for the replies-- maybe i wasn't clear-- I am going to build the computer myself for a class i am taking...but am obligated to buy these parts from a particular vendor-- the price quoted from this vendor is $900 not including tax or monitor... i am wondering if thats a good price or would i be better to go to instructor and ask whether i can go with a different vendor.
 
You have to buy from "THAT" vendor?? Seems fishy to me. Tell them you want to take the class, but you don't want to pay $900 for $600 worth of parts.

D.C.
 
maybe your teacher has some contract with the vendor, he probably pockets half of their profit🙂
tell your teacher his deal sounds fishy, ask him if he is indeed doing this for his own profit
 


<< K7N420= 149.00
300 watt antec sx1030 $99
256 mb ddr crucial $76
60 gig ibm $99
liteon dvd $70
altec lansing atp 3 $60
logitech mice/keyboard $79
XP1700=125.00
WIN XP =100.00
=857.00

Roughly >>



the only problem with that it the nforce board can't take advantage of it's dual channel memory without two dimms...... that effectively means you have an nforce220 board🙁

easy way to fix that tho🙂 buy another 256mb stick😀
 
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