What I Would Do with $1554

[urchinismemphis]

$270 Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHZ Socket 478
$165 Abit BD-7 RAID Motherboard
$169 512 Megabytes DDR PC2100 266MHz Ram
$175 Western Digital 80 Gigabyte ATA-100 7200 RPM HD
$136 Antec SX1040B / Enermax File Server Case with Enermax 350 watt Power
$250 Evga GeForce4 Ti 4400 128MB DDR AGP TV OUT / DVI
$155 Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum
$139 Sony SPRESSA 32X/10X/40X EIDE Internal CD-ReWritable
$45 Sony 16X DVD/40X CD ROM INTERNAL EIDE
$20 Vantec P4 Socket 478 Cooler
$20 Vantec Stealth Ultra Quiet Case Fan
$10 Standard 1.44 Floppy Drive

$1,554

Now , do u think those prices are accurate? Would u change anything on that list with a budget of around 16 or 17 hundred dollars? If so please comment , and let me know how u think this system would perform based on the components , or/and if there is anything that is missing , have fun , thanx

[gibsinep]

Only suggestion I have is change that DDRAM ram to RDRAM.

RDRAM performes better with The P4 than DDR.
Prices also look pretty good.

[userserver]

Look for a good bargain on a 350 MHz AMD system... blow the rest on broads and booze...

er, Memphis, eh

Pass up the broads (my daughters live there)

[urchinismemphis]

haha i live in NY , your daughters are safe

[userserver]

If you want to take advantage of the motherboard you've selected, consider getting two 40MB drives instead of the 80MB or add a 40MB drive.

[Duke523]

Change the board to a dual Pentium Xeon procesers such as the Tyan Thunder i7500. With 12Gigs of DDR, two 180Gig SCSI HDD, two 2.4GHz Xeon Processors. Already has a 10/100/1000 network card built on. Also put the best Geforce 4 on it. This is my dream computer!!!

[Duke523]

http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderi7500.html Take a look!!!

[SandTiger]

Cool. Sounds A lot like my system. Only mine is going to run me about $1300.

Im going AMD with mine.. and I have to buy a monitor.. either you have one .. or you left it off the list.

But mine is also (-) the sound card and cd devices. As i have those.

Im getting the antec 1040 case also.. im gonna mod it .. itll be sweet.

[urchinismemphis]

sounds good , the difference is im probably not gettin this system , by the time i get the money there will be different stuff to get , ill be stuck with my ahtlon 900 for a while...

i left the monitor off cause i recently got a envision 19" , so im straight on that

[Duke523]

Build a computer it is out of date, build another one and its out of date, and so on!!! Then you have 11 runing and fully operational to network.

[urchinismemphis]

thats a good point , ive built my last 3 comps but ive had to either use the case from the last one or other parts like ram and hd's so i always just have 1 , but i still got the motherboards and processors , my last system was a PII 450 , and before that a pentium 233 , those two motherboards and processors were barely ever used , the 233 i bought to upgrade from a 133 then very soon after i got the 450 so i never actually used the 233 or the motherboard i bought for it , and the 450 i only used for a few months before gettin the athlon , i really should put them to work considering that they wont be good for much in the future...

[Mafiosy]

...buy a vawl

[Ape0r]

Save it for when the Hammer comes out .