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If ya want a $1,000 PC, you're gonna get just about the best you can buy right now. Ashton's setup is nice, but for a gaming PC, that shitty Radeon 9600SE will not do the trick. A P4 3.06 with Hyper-Threading will be incredibly bottlenecked by a videocard like the 9600 SE. Games these days have changed over the past few years; they're now more dependant on the videocard instead of the processor. You can get a 10 GHz processor if ya want, but the game won't run worth a shit unless you have a good videocard.
Now, the final decision! AMD or Intel!! Either one is fine considering you're spending $1,000. Budget-minded gamers usually go AMD, but with $1,000 you can afford either choice.
If you want an AMD system, there's another choice on top of the first one: Athlon XP or Athlon 64? Yeah, with $1,000, you can afford either. I suppose I'll list both recommendations!
Athlon 64 Setup
GIGABYTE GA-K8VT800M Motherboard - $96
Athlon 64 3000+ Retail - $227
Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, PC3200, 256 MB x 2 - $124
Lite-On 52x32x52 CD-RW - $38 OEM
Samsung Floppy Drive - $9
Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive - $82
Whatever Case You WantŪ $50
ENERMAX EG365P-VE(FCA) 350W Power Supply - $59
SAPPHIRE RADEON 9800PRO Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP - $229
The total on that computer is $914 before shipping. That's considerably under your price limit and will deliver incredibly performance on ANY of today's games. All prices are directly from the one and the only -- NEWEGG!!
Now for the Athlon XP system:
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton at 1.8 GHz stock - $80 OEM
Abit NF7-S Revision 2.0 Motherboard - $99
Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, PC3200, 256 MB x 2 - $124
Lite-On 52x32x52 CD-RW - $38 OEM
Samsung Floppy Drive - $9
Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive - $82
Whatever Case You WantŪ $50
ENERMAX EG365P-VE(FCA) 350W Power Supply - $59
BFG GeForce FX 5900 ULTRA Video Card, 256MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/VIVO, 8X AGP - $336
Thermaltake Volcano 9+ CPU Fan - $30
The total on the Athlon XP system is $907 before shipping.
Now for the Intel system:
Intel Pentium 4/ 2.4C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache, Hyper Threading Technology - Retail - $163
ABIT 875P Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU, Model "IC7-Max3" - RETAIL - $186
Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, PC3200, 256 MB x 2 - $124
Lite-On 52x32x52 CD-RW - $38 OEM
Samsung Floppy Drive - $9
Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive - $82
Whatever Case You WantŪ $50
ENERMAX EG365P-VE(FCA) 350W Power Supply - $59
SAPPHIRE RADEON 9800PRO Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP - $229
The Intel system is about $940 before shipping.
I hope these recommendations help with buying your computer! They are the exact combinations I'd get if I had $1,000. Good luck!!
-Lasereth
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