Hello all:
I just joined this forum tonight, although I've been reading posts for a few weeks. For reasons that I won't get into, I need to finance purchasing a computer, and I need to get a complete unit as opposed to the parts and building it. I'd like thoughts on the following deal - it seems to be very reasonable compared to what else that I've seen out there:
A system with:
MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum Motherboard nVIDIA® nForce4 Ultra Chipset
AMD Athlon 64 3500 2.2GHz 2000MHZ
Seagate 160GB SATA 7200rpm 8MB Hard Drive
Gigabyte GeForce 6600 256MB TV/DVI Video Card
Kingston DDR PC3200 400MHz 1GB (2 x 512MB) Memory
Lite-on SOHW-1633S 16x Dual Layer DVD+RW Drive
1.44 Floppy Drive
8 Channel Audio On Board
Dual Gigabit Lan On Board
RAID: 0,1,0+1 from 8SATA Ports
Up to 10 USB 2.0 Ports and 2 Firewire IEEE1394a Ports
Thermaltake Tsunami Silver w/400Watt Power Supply
$1130 plus shipping ($50); os is extra, keyboard, mouse, and speakers are extra ...
This is the link to the ebay store:
MPCSComputer
Opinions seem to be higher on MSI boards compared to ASUS boards, which pretty much the majority of most complete units that I've seen have - so I've been leaning towards MSI.
I'm not a gamer, although my kids are. Sims 2, Lord of the Rings - The Battle for Middle Earth, and Tribes - Vengence were purchased for them at Christmas by my significant other, hence my need for a new pc. I can't even load them on what I have now, much less get any kind of performance.
I doubt I make any changes to the system or overclock, at least during the warranty period of the pc - maybe not at all ... I've got several other pcs now in the 1 ghz range - I suspect that I'll eventually replace them and build the replacements ...
I'd appreciate any kind of advice on this deal or issues dealing with an ebay store - I've done a dozen or so ebay deals so I'm not afraid to do that, although this would be by far the most expensive transaction that I have done - the dealer seems to have a good track record ...
Thanks ...
I just joined this forum tonight, although I've been reading posts for a few weeks. For reasons that I won't get into, I need to finance purchasing a computer, and I need to get a complete unit as opposed to the parts and building it. I'd like thoughts on the following deal - it seems to be very reasonable compared to what else that I've seen out there:
A system with:
MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum Motherboard nVIDIA® nForce4 Ultra Chipset
AMD Athlon 64 3500 2.2GHz 2000MHZ
Seagate 160GB SATA 7200rpm 8MB Hard Drive
Gigabyte GeForce 6600 256MB TV/DVI Video Card
Kingston DDR PC3200 400MHz 1GB (2 x 512MB) Memory
Lite-on SOHW-1633S 16x Dual Layer DVD+RW Drive
1.44 Floppy Drive
8 Channel Audio On Board
Dual Gigabit Lan On Board
RAID: 0,1,0+1 from 8SATA Ports
Up to 10 USB 2.0 Ports and 2 Firewire IEEE1394a Ports
Thermaltake Tsunami Silver w/400Watt Power Supply
$1130 plus shipping ($50); os is extra, keyboard, mouse, and speakers are extra ...
This is the link to the ebay store:
MPCSComputer
Opinions seem to be higher on MSI boards compared to ASUS boards, which pretty much the majority of most complete units that I've seen have - so I've been leaning towards MSI.
I'm not a gamer, although my kids are. Sims 2, Lord of the Rings - The Battle for Middle Earth, and Tribes - Vengence were purchased for them at Christmas by my significant other, hence my need for a new pc. I can't even load them on what I have now, much less get any kind of performance.
I doubt I make any changes to the system or overclock, at least during the warranty period of the pc - maybe not at all ... I've got several other pcs now in the 1 ghz range - I suspect that I'll eventually replace them and build the replacements ...
I'd appreciate any kind of advice on this deal or issues dealing with an ebay store - I've done a dozen or so ebay deals so I'm not afraid to do that, although this would be by far the most expensive transaction that I have done - the dealer seems to have a good track record ...
Thanks ...