The ICEBOX

[TAZTG]

I was asked to help Ice order gear for his new box. Here's what I came up with. Note some of these are preferences that Ice would need to decide on. This is pretty much everything except Monitor and Graphic Card. If you need a monitor I would go to BestBuy and for a Graphic Card you have a nice ATI9800, if you need another one for Gabby let me know I have one for Cheap. Lemme me know what ya think.

AMD Athlon 64 System -ICEBOX

Processor: Athlon 64 3500+ Retail - $272 (NewEgg)
Cooling: Swiftech MCX64-V for AMD® Athlon™ 64 and Opteron- $41.95 (SideWinder)
Arctic Silver Thermal Compound, Model "Arctic Silver 5", 3.5-gram( 1 cc. ) tube - $7.95 (NewEgg)
Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum NForce3 Ultra - $136.99 (NewEgg) OR
Motherboard: ASUS "A8V Deluxe" VIA K8T800 Pro Chipset - $129.50 (NewEgg)
Memory: 2 X 512-MB Corsair TwinX XMS DDR400/PC3200LL - $251 (NewEgg)
Hard Drive: Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM SATA 8MB Cache - $95.50 (NewEgg)
Speakers: Creative Inspire P7800 7.1 Speakers - $83.99 (NewEgg)
Lite-On 16X DVD Dual Drive, Model SOHW-1633S Black - $64.00 (NewEgg)
Lite-On Black 52X32X52 CD-RW Drive - $20.00 (NewEgg)
Mouse: Logitech Blue Performance Optical Mouse PS2/ USB, Model "MX510" - $35.50 (NewEgg)
Keyboard: Microsoft BLACK Multimedia Keyboard PS/2 102keys - $19.50 (NewEgg)
Operating System: Windows XP Pro - $143 (NewEgg)
Samsung Black 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive - $6.99 (NewEgg)

Total: $ 1178.37 (With MSI Mobo)

 

[«BuA»Lurker_71]

So are there any major differences between the two mobos?

I'm thinking that once I get a few things taken care of @ tax time, I might be able to do some minor upgrading... but the only things I'd really need to get are RAM, the 64-bit AMD/mobo and prolly a new box to put em in.

Granted that's prolly more than I'll have left after I take care of a few things, but it's good to have a list prepared, eh?

 

[TAZTG]

So are there any major differences between the two mobos?

I'm thinking that once I get a few things taken care of @ tax time, I might be able to do some minor upgrading... but the only things I'd really need to get are RAM, the 64-bit AMD/mobo and prolly a new box to put em in.

Granted that's prolly more than I'll have left after I take care of a few things, but it's good to have a list prepared, eh?

I got a case for you. Just like the one DEV has.

 

[Bad-Target]

Remember Taz I was given the ok by the misses for a new system under $1000 I may still need your help.

I did try and piece some thing together based on the system we set up on cyberpowerpc, but buying everything at newegg made the price higher then Cyberpowerpc. mainly because of the operating system.

 

[TAZTG]

There are folks who enjoy the satisfaction of Building their own RIGS as opposed to just ordering one PreBuilt. Both have their advantages, I prefer to build my own. That system above can be brought down to below 1K very easily by adjusting some of the choices. (ie-Hard Drive, RAM, Speakers, CPU etc.) I suppose its hard to understand the sastifaction/smile when you first Power up a rig you just built.