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Originally posted by w00t
I've been crunching numbers trying to put together a great new PC setup for myself. I want it to be a great gaming PC. I'll be doing this over e-bay and assembling it myself to try and get a good deal. Here's the proposed specs:
2.4GHZ Pentium 4 CPU
ASUS P4PE/L 533FSB Motherboard
Ati Radeon 9700 Pro AGP video card
512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM
100GB Western digital HDD
52x/28x/52x CDRW Drive
Windows XP Pro/Redhat 8.0
Price < $1200 
Any thoughts on this setup?
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Not totally sure but that price seems reasonable, although on the high end. Checkout
www.pricewatch.com. They usually have the best deals around and you dont have to worry about stuff not working like you do with ebay. The p4 is a good choice, AMD XP might be better if youre considering it. They are extremely overclockable and that usually makes up for their being slower. I would consider swapping out the cdrw for a dvd-burner because those are getting cheaper now and will be big soon, plus they read/write both dvds AND cds so you get 2 drives in one for a little extra $. I would swap out the ATI for a geforce4-4200 or better. The ATI card is bascially crap. you have all this extra software to install and nvidia is just generally easier+more compatable. As far as the software is concerned... *cough* *cough* there are ways to save
alot of money on that as well.