Computer purchase:Does this look decent?

[DevilishTexan]

BASE_PRICE: [+569]

2ND_USB: STANDARD 2 USB PORT CONNECTORS
CABLE: None
CAS: TURBO X-INFINITY Case 420W W/ WINDOW & LCD Temperature Display
CPU: (754-pin) AMD™ ATHLON™64 3000+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology ~ CAJ107 [+20]
FAN: AMD ATHLON64 CERTIFIED CPU FAN & HEATSINK
MOTHERBOARD: (754-pin Socket) GigaByte GA-K8NS nForce3 250 Chipset AGP8X w/LAN,USB2,&Audio
MEMORY: 512 MB PC3200 400MHz DDR MEMORY (GEIL VALUE RAM)
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce-FX 5200 128MB DDR W/ TV OUT & DVI [+8]
SOUND: 3D WAVE ON-BOARD 5.1 SOUND CARD
CD: COMBO DRIVE (16X DVD-ROM & 52x32x52 CD-RW)
CDRW: (Special Price) Samsung TS-H522B 16X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER [+62]
FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 6in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer
FLOPPY: 1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE
HDD: 160GB 7200 RPM ATA 100 HARD DRIVE
HDD2: NONE
HALFLIFE2: Free "Half-Life 2 Bronze" Download Coupon
IEEE CARD: NONE
KEYBOARD: Logitech Deluxe 104 PS/2 Keyboard
MOUSE: PS2 INTERNET MOUSE W/ WHEEL
MODEM: NONE
MP3PLAYER: NONE
MONITOR: NONE
NETWORK: ONBOARD 10/100 NETWORK CARD
OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional w/ Service Pack 2 [+135]
PRINTER: None
PRINTER CABLE: None
POWERSUPPLY: STANDARD CASE POWER SUPPLY
RAID: NONE
RUSH: NO; READY TO SHIP IN 5~10 BUSINESS DAYS
SCANNER: NONE
SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY PLUS ONE-YEAR ONSITE SERVICE
SPEAKERS: 600WATT PMPO SUBWOOFER STEREO SPEAKERS
UPS: None
VIDEOCAMERA: NONE
WIRELESSPOINT: NONE
WIRELESSCARD: NONE
ZIP: NONE
PRICE: (+794)

 

[Vixandra]

For a puter with 128mg graphics card and XP Pro- yeah, $569 is a screamingly good price, long as its not from a crappy company.

IE- will never own another E-machine cause the one I had was buggy as hell and the others I've seen are worse.

Where'd you find that price, if you don't mind my askin?

 

[DevilishTexan]

For a puter with 128mg graphics card and XP Pro- yeah, $569 is a screamingly good price, long as its not from a crappy company.

IE- will never own another E-machine cause the one I had was buggy as hell and the others I've seen are worse.

Where'd you find that price, if you don't mind my askin?

Actually, the end price is 794.00. Starting price is 569.00 but I upgraded the video card, processor and added a dvd-rw.

The company is CyberPower

 

[Vixandra]

Actually, the end price is 794.00. Starting price is 569.00 but I upgraded the video card, processor and added a dvd-rw.

The company is CyberPower

Still a great price, especially if you break down the individual costs involved:
OS: $299.99 Suggested retail
Video Card: 79.99
RAM: 139.99
Add about 200 for the DVDr/rw drive.
Plus the case with temp read out (never thought of that but want one now, LOL), it sounds like a great computer at a great cost.

Thanks for the link! Going to have to send it to a friend who's looking for a new gaming puter.

 

[DevilishTexan]

Still a great price, especially if you break down the individual costs involved:
OS: $299.99 Suggested retail
Video Card: 79.99
RAM: 139.99
Add about 200 for the DVDr/rw drive.
Plus the case with temp read out (never thought of that but want one now, LOL), it sounds like a great computer at a great cost.

Thanks for the link! Going to have to send it to a friend who's looking for a new gaming puter.

On another thread I started someone here stated their company bought CP puter's for their company to replace Dells. And liked them. So guess we'll see. They got a pretty good rating on Cnet.

 

[Marcius]

if it doesn't jump the price up too much, double the ram.

 

[WarmVanilla]

If you're going to do much gaming, I'll agree on the RAM increase. Going to a gig on my system (no brand, assembled it myself) did a huge amount of good for games.

 

[kaion]

Originally posted by Vixandra

Add about 200 for the DVDr/rw drive.

wow you must get ripped off in parts thats 60-100 even for dual layer .

if you fell you can slap parts together just got www.pricewatch.com and build your own it will be cheaper and a better machine

 

[DevilishTexan]

wow you must get ripped off in parts thats 60-100 even for dual layer .

if you fell you can slap parts together just got www.pricewatch.com and build your own it will be cheaper and a better machine

Damn, that place is cheap. I may look into that. Thanks.

 

[DevilishTexan]

Damn, that place is cheap. I may look into that. Thanks.

So far, I've priced compared and it looks as though CyberPower is about 100.00 more than what I could buy the parts for. So I guess thats about what they charge to build. Not too bad overall.

 

[Earl]

Suck it up and get a MAC. No more problems with viruses or pop ups. Once you go mac you won't go back.

 

[DevilishTexan]

Suck it up and get a MAC. No more problems with viruses or pop ups. Once you go mac you won't go back.

Used Macs. No thanks.

 

[kaion]

Suck it up and get a MAC. No more problems with viruses or pop ups. Once you go mac you won't go back.

I thought macs had one use, a paper weight . only reason you dont get virii is because noone wants to write something that will only affect 3% of the population of computer users.

 

[nightmaredns]

I thought macs had one use, a paper weight . only reason you dont get virii is because noone wants to write something that will only affect 3% of the population of computer users.

Actually OS X is BSD based and is more secure than your windows machine.

At any rate, that's a good deal. I'd try to up the ram to a gig, but that's just me.

You may want to inquire as to the wattage of that standard power supply. Most are gonna be about 400W, and your description says 420W, but I'd ask to make sure. The reason being that NVIDIA is gonna suck up some power, so a 450W may be in your best interest.

Also, you're getting onboard sound but a full speaker system. I'd maybe look into getting a sound card, maybe an audigy2 or something similar.

Overall, nice PC, let us know how it works out.

 

[DevilishTexan]

Actually OS X is BSD based and is more secure than your windows machine.

At any rate, that's a good deal. I'd try to up the ram to a gig, but that's just me.

You may want to inquire as to the wattage of that standard power supply. Most are gonna be about 400W, and your description says 420W, but I'd ask to make sure. The reason being that NVIDIA is gonna suck up some power, so a 450W may be in your best interest.

Also, you're getting onboard sound but a full speaker system. I'd maybe look into getting a sound card, maybe an audigy2 or something similar.

Overall, nice PC, let us know how it works out.

Well after thoughtful consideration, I decided to go with this. A Nemesis case with 400w power and 3 cooling fans/temp.
*BASE_PRICE: [+569]
2ND USB: STANDARD 2 USB PORT CONNECTORS
CABLE: None
CAS: NZXT Nemesis Elite Aluminium Mid-Tower Case 420W W/Window, Temp.Display & Fan Control [+46] (BLACK COLOR [+0])
CASUPGRADE: NONE
CPU: (754-pin) AMD™ ATHLON™64 3000+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology ~ CAJ107 [+20]
CD: COMBO DRIVE (16X DVD-ROM & 52x32x52 CD-RW) (BLACK COLOR [+0])
CDRW: (Special Price) Samsung TS-H522B 16X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER [+62] (BLACK COLOR [+0])
FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 6in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer (BLACK COLOR [+0])
FAN: AMD ATHLON64 CERTIFIED CPU FAN & HEATSINK
FLOPPY: 1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE (BLACK COLOR [+0])
HDD: MAXTOR 120GB 7200 RPM ATA 133 HARD DRIVE [-1]
HDD2: NONE
HALFLIFE2: Free "Half-Life 2 Bronze" Download Coupon [+0]
IEEE_CARD: NONE
KEYBOARD: Logitech Deluxe 104 PS/2 Keyboard (BLACK COLOR)
MOUSE: PS2 INTERNET MOUSE W/ WHEEL (BLACK COLOR [+0])
MSGAME1: NONE
MSGAME2: NONE
MSGAME3: NONE
MODEM: NONE
MP3PLAYER: NONE
MOTHERBOARD: (754-pin Socket) GigaByte GA-K8NS nForce3 250 Chipset AGP8X w/LAN,USB2,&Audio
MEMORY: 512 MB PC3200 400MHz DDR MEMORY (GEIL VALUE RAM)
MONITOR: NONE
NAPSTER: NONE
NETWORK: ONBOARD 10/100 NETWORK CARD
OS: NONE - FORMAT HARD DRIVE ONLY
PRINTER: None
PRINTER_CABLE: None
POWERSUPPLY: STANDARD CASE POWER SUPPLY
RAID: NONE
RUSH: NO; READY TO SHIP IN 5~10 BUSINESS DAYS
SCANNER: NONE
SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY PLUS ONE-YEAR ONSITE SERVICE
SOUND: NEW!!! Creative Labs SB LIVE 24.bit 7.1 [+30]
SPEAKERS: 600WATT PMPO SUBWOOFER STEREO SPEAKERS
SOFT1: NONE
SOFT2: NONE
TEMP: NONE (AS SHOWN)
UPS: None
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce-FX 5200 128MB DDR W/ TV OUT & DVI [+8]
VIDEOCAMERA: NONE
WIRELESSPOINT: NONE
WIRELESSCARD: NONE
ZIP: NONE
PRICE: (+734)

 

[WarmVanilla]

You do realize that this won't come with an operating system. You'll have to either get Windows on your own, or go with another OS.

 

[DevilishTexan]

You do realize that this won't come with an operating system. You'll have to either get Windows on your own, or go with another OS.

Yeah. They wanna charge $135 for XP Pro. I can get it for $85.


Nice av.

 

[DevilishTexan]

Well, here she is:

Gamer Ultra 5000 Value [Athlon64/64 FX] - NO MONITOR
*BASE_PRICE: [+569]
2ND_USB: Build-in USB 2.0 Ports
CABLE: None
CAS: NZXT Nemesis Elite Aluminium Mid-Tower Case 420W W/Window, Temp.Display & Fan Control [+46] (BLACK COLOR [+0])
CASUPGRADE: NONE
CPU: (754-pin) AMD™ ATHLON™64 3000+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology ~ CAJ107 [+20]
CD: COMBO DRIVE (16X DVD-ROM & 52x32x52 CD-RW) (BLACK COLOR [+0])
CDRW: (Special Price) Samsung TS-H522B 16X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER [+62] (BLACK COLOR [+0])
FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 6in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer (BLACK COLOR [+0])
FAN: AMD ATHLON64 CERTIFIED CPU FAN & HEATSINK
FLOPPY: 1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE (BLACK COLOR [+0])
HDD: MAXTOR 120GB 7200 RPM ATA 133 HARD DRIVE [-1]
HDD2: NONE
HALFLIFE2: Free "Half-Life 2 Bronze" Download Coupon [+0]
IEEE_CARD: NONE
KEYBOARD: Logitech Deluxe 104 PS/2 Keyboard (BLACK COLOR)
MOUSE: PS2 INTERNET MOUSE W/ WHEEL (BLACK COLOR [+0])
MSGAME1: NONE
MSGAME2: NONE
MSGAME3: NONE
MODEM: NONE
MP3PLAYER: NONE
MOTHERBOARD: (754-pin Socket) GigaByte GA-K8NS nForce3 250 Chipset AGP8X w/LAN,USB2,&Audio
MEMORY: 512 MB PC3200 400MHz DDR MEMORY (GEIL VALUE RAM)
MONITOR: NONE
NAPSTER: Free Napster Download Coupon [+0]
NETWORK: ADDITIONAL PCI 32 BIT 10/100 NETWORK CARD [+9]
OS: NONE - FORMAT HARD DRIVE ONLY
PRINTER: None
PRINTER_CABLE: None
POWERSUPPLY: STANDARD CASE POWER SUPPLY
RAID: NONE
RUSH: NO; READY TO SHIP IN 5~10 BUSINESS DAYS
SCANNER: NONE
SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY PLUS ONE-YEAR ONSITE SERVICE
SOUND: NEW!!! Creative Labs SB LIVE 24.bit 7.1 [+30]
SPEAKERS: 600WATT PMPO SUBWOOFER STEREO SPEAKERS
SOFT1: NONE
SOFT2: NONE
TEMP: NONE (AS SHOWN)
UPS: None
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce-FX 5200 128MB DDR W/ TV OUT & DVI [+8]
VIDEOCAMERA: NONE
WIRELESSPOINT: NONE
WIRELESSCARD: NONE
ZIP: NONE
_PRICE: (+743)
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$743.00 x 1 $743.00
SUBTOTAL $743.00
Sales Tax (N/A) $0.00
Shipping: UPS Ground $65.00
GRAND TOTAL $808.00


Lets hope she's a screamer.

 

[Bystander]

i don't get why you got 2 CR RWs but everything else looks pretty good to me.

 

[DevilishTexan]

i don't get why you got 2 CR RWs but everything else looks pretty good to me.

Ya know, I had to look twice at that too. One is a dvd-rw and the other just a cd-rw. One does both. The combo is just a dvd-rom whereas the other is a writer as well.

 

[JoseIsWild]

Suck it up and get a MAC. No more problems with viruses or pop ups. Once you go mac you won't go back.

L I N U X ! ! !

 

[JoseIsWild]

Ya know, I had to look twice at that too. One is a dvd-rw and the other just a cd-rw. One does both. The combo is just a dvd-rom whereas the other is a writer as well.

Yep, no reason for the first drive. If you have a drive that writes DVD-R & +R on dual layer, there is no need for anything else.

 

[DevilishTexan]

Yep, no reason for the first drive. If you have a drive that writes DVD-R & +R on dual layer, there is no need for anything else.

Well shit. Guess I have to make a call Monday.

 

[Bystander]

^i'd recommend getting just a straight up DVD drive. That way you can make copies without having to swap discs.
Probably save you about 20 bucks I'd guess :/
Not a lot in the scheme of things but it'll buy you a nice steak

 

[shahla_rose]

I personally don't like a comp with windows but yeah sounds good