I basically threw this together with a rough limit of 2,000$. All of the parts were found on tigerdirect and Im sure with some deal hunting and some luck it can be cut down even further from the already pretty low price.
Case (Xion Black ATX Mid-Tower Case with Clear Side, Front USB and 450Watt Power Supply) 64.99
Motherboard and CPU (Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe nVidia Socket 939 MotherBoard and AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 Processor) 899.99
HDD (Western Digital / Caviar SE / 200GB / 7200 / 8MB / ATA-100 / EIDE / OEM / Hard Drive) 109.99
Moniter (Acer AL1912 / 19Inch / 1280 x 1024 / 16ms / Black / LCD Monitor) 219.99
Video Card (BFG GeForce 7800 GTX OC / 256MB DDR3 / PCI Express / Dual DVI / HDTV / Video Card) 599.99
Floppy Disk Drive (Premium 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive) its good for booting into dos 17.99
Keyboard and Mouse (AOpen Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo (Black) ) 49.95
*Optional* (Altec MX5021 3-Piece Glossy Black Speaker System) 149.99 I just use a head set anyhow and computers have in jacks
I think this is a sweet deal for just 12.84$ over 2 grand. I consider this pc to be pretty pimped out for a budget like this one.
The burner is good because its really cheap, has a copy of nero with it and its fully EFM capable which means its good at getting past the latest copy protections. The 1.44 in floppy disk has its few and far between uses, but things like flashing your dvd burner with the newest firmware requires them when its OEM. Monitor is sweet, bigger then my current CRT. Wireless mouse/keyboard is just a great deal and less wires means more clutter. I use headphones and I think that mobo has intergrated sound so It will have headphone jack. 200gb hdd for 109 is pretty good and that 64 bit processor is so sexy. That video card is very good to my understanding and for 2 grand this isnt a bad build.
just keep in mind i do recall XP doesnt natively support SATA so u have to use some kinda floopy drive or something at first install to get it to read the drive.
For computers, buying cheaply and often will only leave you constantly in a world of shit.
just keep in mind i do recall XP doesnt natively support SATA so u have to use some kinda floopy drive or something at first install to get it to read the drive.
i think hes tryin to say that since ur doin this on ur own, when u first install windows xp... it doesnt kno to look for SATA so ud have to tell it to, except that right now ur gettin EIDE
other thing i noticed... u could look at monitor with faster response time since they jus released 4 ms...
When you go to start up the installation for Windows XP, at the bottom it will ask you if you need to install SATA/RAID drivers. Do that, and make sure it's on in the BIOS.
