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help me build my dream machine

Apr 26, 2005 2:56PM PDT

Can you help me build my dream machine.
Please it's part of my final project.

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RE: Build Your Own
Apr 26, 2005 3:17PM PDT

ASPIRE X-Dreamer II ATXB4KLW-AL Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 350W Power Supply-56
Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-400 ATX12V 400W Power Supply 115/230 V UL, TUV, CB, FCC CLASS B, CUL-59
ASUS A8V-E Deluxe Socket 939 VIA K8T890 ATX AMD Motherboard-177
AMD Athlon 64 3500+512k 0.13micron (939) (Retail Box-w-Fan)-267
2 of THERMALTAKE A2016 80mm 1 Ball 1 Sleeve Blue LED Light Cooling Fan-2x14
CORSAIR XMS 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory Model CMX1024RE-283
Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model 7Y250M0, OEM Drive Only + Thermaltake SATA Cable-142(limited-time offer)-142
Rosewill RB-321 White IDE Combo DVD-CDRW Drive-28
Microsoft Windows XP Home w/Service Pack 2-93
eVGA 6800 GT 128MB DDR3/PCI-E/TV-Out/Dual-DVI-359
Mitsumi USB2.0 Digital Card Reader/Writer W/FD INTERNAL, Model FA404A/404M-24
Logitech X-230-30
COOLER MASTER KHC-L91-U1 92mm Ball Cooling Fan/Heatsink-50
Arctic SIlver Premium Photosynthetic SIlver Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5-8
Creative Blaster Modem-19
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS-89
Logitech Logitech Cordless Desktop EX100 Black 102 Normal Keys 7 Function Keys PS/2 Wireless Type Standard Keyboard Mouse Included-38

for a total of $1606 without a monitor. If you already have speakers and a keyboard, you can decrease the price to $1500. ALso a modem is not necessary so like $1480. Case and psu can be changed accordingly, you may also add case lights, etc. All prices are newegg prices.
Roger

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Do-it-yourself
Apr 27, 2005 7:19AM PDT

Cnet has an online course for "Build Your Own PC," the link is on the left under Online Courses. I don't know what your budget is and what type of system you want but you can get all your components at newegg.com.

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go...
Apr 27, 2005 8:17AM PDT

to the pc hardware section of this site and look at the thread abotu building best machine...then look at the one ozos made...thats about as good as it gets

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and it's about $17,000
Apr 27, 2005 8:28AM PDT

also, for building a dream machine, there is one question:

what you gonna use it for?


if we know that, we can suggest hardware

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ya...
Apr 27, 2005 9:35AM PDT

but he said dream machine, so I brought it up

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Dream?
Apr 27, 2005 8:49AM PDT

Some info and check the gaming builders shown here to get a feel on what components would fill your dream machine then go from there:

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-7586-0.html?forumID=68&threadID=96012&messageID=1090509

A computer costing $10,000 is not practical unless you are making 6 figure $'s and want to impress your friends.

There is currently SLI dual graphic card systems out now that can eat up some $$.

Alienware, Dell, and Velocity Micro started on April 18 selling desktop PCs and workstations based on Intel's first dual-core processor-based platform. The Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840 is priced around t $999 and the Intel 955X Express Chipset is priced around $50.

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man...
Apr 27, 2005 9:36AM PDT

I know my dad pulls in 6 figures but their is no way in hell he will buy me a comp like that...I would be happy if he put $500 towards a new one for me

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systems barebone
Apr 27, 2005 1:08PM PDT
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If you can get a Deal from DELL its cheaper
Apr 28, 2005 6:34PM PDT

if you know how to build computers you need to check the prices sometimes its cheaper buy a brand name , the best is DEll for just cases and MB that it uses also some of the deals they have especially this month they are giving alot away like free printer and 17" or 19" LCD, The other companies are a pain to add hardware like harddrives, because you don't know whose Motherboard is used plus the cases are small and pain to take apart. You need to get the parts cheap to match brand name since you get OS for nothing.
I just brought from DELL different computers, I couldn't build them for the price I got them. I got was Dimension 8400 has Intel Motherboard with intel 915G chipset which has Matrix RAID onboard. I brought HomeXP,Intel made 775socket with Matrix RAID, intel540 cpu,512meg ram,80gb sata drive,48x cdrom, ATI X300 128meg PCIE video card NIC and Ultrasharp 17" LCD with 16ms refresh and Dell 720 Printer for $599. I plan to sell X300 and 80GB Sata drive and replace with either Nvidia 6800GT or ATI X800/850 video card and turn on the RAID and put in 2 @250gb sata drives, soundblaster Audigy2 Platinum,2@ DVD Dual Layer Burners all for less than $1000. the other was Windows Media Center 2005, Intel 560 CPU, 512meg ram, 160gb sata drive,soundblaster Audigy2, 256meg Nvidia 6800GT,16X DVDrom, 16X DVD Dual layer Burner,56K modem, NICand 3 year warranty for $725, I just missed a XPS generation 4 with intel560 2gb ram,audigy2,256meg Nvidia 6800GT PciE video, 16XDVD Dual layer burner,2@250GB Sata Drives for $1220. parts along cost $1500 without OS.

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depending on where you buy and...btw
Apr 29, 2005 9:28AM PDT

Dell's MB's are of the lowest quality
their cases are equal
and their PSU's, while decent, don't allow much upgradeability

you can put any hard drive in any machine
it's just an IDE device
as far as grpahics it's the same way

Dell is a horrible company
as they give you zero upgradeability (few have AGP slots, bad BIOS, bad RAM, bad cooling)

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Hmmm......
Apr 29, 2005 10:19AM PDT

That is your opinion ozos, perhaps from some you have come across in the past, but not the later Dell's IMO, especially in the 8400 series and XPS. Even the 4700 series (along with the 8400/XPS now all have the PCI-Express x-16 capabilities instead of no upgrade. The cooling is OK on the 8400 with their bigger case and the RAM is now adequate IMO. Dell will also be coming out with the new Intel dual processors as recently reported.

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yes, i'm not talking about all Dell's though
Apr 30, 2005 10:49AM PDT

i'm talking about low end Dell's
the XPS Gen 4 is what? $3000? $2000? something like that
the 8400 is amazingly expensive (i know this, a friend got one, their expensive beyond belief, and for what you get...yuck)

it wasl ike $2200, and features a slower GPU, and comparable CPU to my system which is only around $1200
i mean seriously...Dell's low end are just junk, no upgrades and bad BIOS
and their high end are over priced

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Not so...you need to see for yourself....seriously
Apr 30, 2005 5:54PM PDT

Don't know what your friend is telling you but the 8400 is not "amazingly expensive".

A 8400 from Dell starts out at $879 with free shipping.

This 8400 can be configured for $1238 with free shipping:

Pent4 Processor 640 (EM64T)3.2GHz, HT Tech, 800 FSB

RAM: 1GB DDR 2 SDRAM 400MHz

Printer

Dual Drives: DVD-ROM
16x DVD+/-RE w/dbl layer write capability

Video Card: 256MB PCI Express x16 NVidia Geforce 6800

IEEE 1394 firewire

Dell Speakers
Keyboard & Mouse

17"CRT

6 Months of America Online Membership Included
Dell Jukebox - easy-to-use music player and CD burning software
Adobe