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The New Computer Contest Thread..and stuff.
MisfitZ
Member Posts: 368
Or...something like that.
So, I'm putting together a computer for a buddy of time, as kind of practice for when I build my own later this spring.
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131540
$166.99
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester 1GHz HT 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103547
$357.00
XFX PVT42EUDE3 6800 XTreme 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150130
$139.00
THERMALTAKE TR2 500W Power Supply ATX12V V2.0 - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817153028
$79.99
Patriot Signature Series 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit System Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220037
$69.99
NIKAO CA-DRAGONFIRE-BK Black 0.8MM SECC Steel Metal ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811213015
$64.99
Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144415
$75.00
You know...if anyone can slap together a layout for a gaming rig that is better than the one I posted, and list it here by tomorrow at 8am PST, I'll give them 25 bucks on paypal.
The budget is 900 bucks. The one I posted broke that budget.
- No monitor
- No optical drive
- Must be AMD
- Must be SLI
Include links, and note if it's a daily special with a time limit or somesuch.
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Listen Asmodeeus, seven years ago, Ultima Online didn't even have those pathetic "quests" that you refer to or those "professions" of ninja, samurai, necromancer, and paladin. Nor did it have any of the neon crap, or bug mounts. It didn't even have any "combat moves." You turned on attack and jousted with simplistic swings. It was a better game then. if you can't guess why then just uninstall the thing and move along. - Crabby
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More or less exactly what Im saving up for except I want this board :
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8N_Diamond_Plus&class=mb
Basically the same set of features but it has genuine creative 24 bit audio.
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"MMOs, for people that like think chatting is like a skill or something, rotflol"
http://purepwnage.com
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
The creative audio would be nice, but it doesn't feel important enough for the extra 30 bucks.
Other than that, everything looks good, huh?
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Listen Asmodeeus, seven years ago, Ultima Online didn't even have those pathetic "quests" that you refer to or those "professions" of ninja, samurai, necromancer, and paladin. Nor did it have any of the neon crap, or bug mounts. It didn't even have any "combat moves." You turned on attack and jousted with simplistic swings. It was a better game then. if you can't guess why then just uninstall the thing and move along. - Crabby
I'm not going to give another lecture on how paying extra for an SLI motherboard is a waste if you aren't buying two video cards now or in the very near future.
Then why even make a comment?
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Listen Asmodeeus, seven years ago, Ultima Online didn't even have those pathetic "quests" that you refer to or those "professions" of ninja, samurai, necromancer, and paladin. Nor did it have any of the neon crap, or bug mounts. It didn't even have any "combat moves." You turned on attack and jousted with simplistic swings. It was a better game then. if you can't guess why then just uninstall the thing and move along. - Crabby
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"MMOs, for people that like think chatting is like a skill or something, rotflol"
http://purepwnage.com
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Good point.
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Listen Asmodeeus, seven years ago, Ultima Online didn't even have those pathetic "quests" that you refer to or those "professions" of ninja, samurai, necromancer, and paladin. Nor did it have any of the neon crap, or bug mounts. It didn't even have any "combat moves." You turned on attack and jousted with simplistic swings. It was a better game then. if you can't guess why then just uninstall the thing and move along. - Crabby
+1
but really, because I've already talked about it in a couple other threads like this.
Also if you split up the order among different sites you could save some bucks. Newegg isn't always the cheapest. I like to use Pricegrabber although it doesn't always catch everything.
These forums are a pain in the ass to edit stuff with.
The formatting options suck, and the enhanced editor is a gigantic pile of useless ...stuff.
Yea, Jaguar, I was checking out www.zipzoomfly.com and www.tigerdirect.com and www.chiefvalue.com as well. Most are +/- 5-10 bucks. Not a huge difference. Zipzoomfly has free 2nd day shipping, and is generally a few dollars cheaper than Newegg... I might go through them.
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Listen Asmodeeus, seven years ago, Ultima Online didn't even have those pathetic "quests" that you refer to or those "professions" of ninja, samurai, necromancer, and paladin. Nor did it have any of the neon crap, or bug mounts. It didn't even have any "combat moves." You turned on attack and jousted with simplistic swings. It was a better game then. if you can't guess why then just uninstall the thing and move along. - Crabby