Author Topic: OK guys here is your chance...You have $1500 (Read 673 times)

JB66 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 10, 2005, 08:29:39 PM »

I would stay away from the gf 6600 series....I remember Skuzzy writing that most of them were failed 6800's and have a high rate of failure.

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #16 on:** February 10, 2005, 08:49:42 PM »

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Originally posted by OIO
Save some money and drop the wireless stuff... you have to be in front of the PC to be able to play anyways. If you think its a pain in the arse when you lose your tv remote control, wait till you lose your wireless mouse.. heh!

I love my Logitech cordless stuff, but then I sit 10' from my monitor.

Reschke · « **Reply #17 on:** February 10, 2005, 09:08:04 PM »

This is a what if thread. It wasn't a cost comparison for what I would buy versus what I wouldn't buy. I just wanted your opinions on different setups and different configurations. Everyone does things a little differently and if I was to do this setup it would be used for more than just playing games.

I haven't heard anything or read anything bad about the PCI-e Gigabyte cards on a Gigabyte motherboard.

As for the SLI side of things I was shooting for possible expansion with higher RAM and SLI functions later on down the road. AND it was the only relatively inexpensive PCI-e card I found in just a few minutes of searching that Mwave had listed in the price point I was shooting for.

In my current system I have 1GB of DDR400 RAM working with a Skt754 3200 A64 on a Gigabyte K8Ns Pro with a BFG 128MB 6800OC video card. The only real drawback is the 40GB hard drive that I have in the system. I have the option to go with a SATA drive but that means that I have to get a copy of either Drive Image or Ghost and copy the entire drive over to the new setup and I am not sure that I want to do that right now. Besides my old copy of Ghost is corrupted from my days working in the computer shop a few years ago.

Reschke · « **Reply #18 on:** February 10, 2005, 09:10:37 PM »

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Originally posted by OIO
Save some money and drop the wireless stuff... you have to be in front of the PC to be able to play anyways. If you think its a pain in the arse when you lose your tv remote control, wait till you lose your wireless mouse.. heh!

Hey I love the current Logtiech MX700 Duo setup that I have with the cordless mouse and keyboard. It even works every time I want to use it unless the oldest boy has run the battery down in the mouse. Then within an hour or so on the recharger its good to go again.

Schutt · « **Reply #19 on:** February 11, 2005, 02:56:25 AM »

Get a normal keyboard and mouse saves 50$

Get one harddrive... more than fast enogh... save 90$

Get XP home oem, save 50$ with what you listed no need for xp professional at all. Weather its with sp2 or not doesnt matter since you have flatrate anyway.

DVD RW is to expensive.. can get for 100$ ... save 30$

Get a DVD Rom instead of a CD ROM, pay 5$ extra.

scrap the CRT monitor 115$
now for the 330$ Get a TFT display.

Reschke · « **Reply #20 on:** February 11, 2005, 08:24:20 AM »

While I agree that you can get cheaper hardware I was going for the best bang for my $1500. As I mentioned earlier here this is a what if and yes I do need two hard drives. One for work and one for home. As for a DVD drive versus a CD drive I cut cost there and a few other slots getting the best bang for the $1500 spent.

So post your setup instead and lets see what you would put in there and list the source you got the prices from.

RightF00T · « **Reply #21 on:** February 15, 2005, 11:59:14 AM »

Anyone selling a monitor? I could use one for under $75 to get me back into AH. Thanks in advance.