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My First Homebuild - Rate It if you please
After about 12 or so hours of reading reviews and checking prices, here's what I've come up with for my first system. I'll be using it mostly for gaming and web surfing. Almost all prices are from Googlegear.com. Please let me know if I'm making any awful mistakes before I place the order.
Motherboard - Asus A7N8X Deluxe nForce2 AMD Athlon XP/Duron, Socket A, ATX, 3GB DDR-SDRAM, 333MHz FSB
$125.99
Case - Antec 1080AMG Performance Plus ATX Tower $118.99
Processor - Athlon XP 2500+ (1.83GHz, 512KB, 333MHz, Socket A) $98.00
Memory - Kingston 256MB PC2700 DDR DIMM $32.50 (x2)= $ 65.00
Video Card - Radeon 9000 PRO AGP 128MB DDR 2D/3D w/TV $ 87.00
Hard Drive - Maxtor 30GB (EIDE, ATA/133, 7200 RPM) $81.51
Sound Card -n/a (onboard sound on the mother board is supposedly really good)
CD-RW Drive - 52x/24x/52x Lite-On (Internal, IDE/ATAPI) $50.50
Monitor - Samsung Samtron 78DF 17in Flat CRT Monitor Retail $104.50
Operating System - Windows XP Home Edition (OEM) $93.00
Modem - XFX Pine CONEXANT 56K Modem V.92 PCI V.92 CONEXANT 11242 $18.43
Keyboard -Microsoft Internet Keyboard & IntelliMouse Combo OEM $25.50
TOTAL = $ 871
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