Building a puter for a friend

[Machupo]

So, what do you think about these specs and prices?

Motherboard (K7M w/o audio)- $147
CPU (trinity micro modded Athy)- $310
RAM (256mb PC100 cas2) - $359
Case (AOpen HX45)- $45
Fan (Arctic Circle)- $50
Power supply (Antec PP-303X) - $33
Hard drive (13 gb UDMA66 Maxtor) - $100
monitor (19" .26mm) - $278
CD-RW (4X plextor) - $158
DVD (6X CL)- $83
keyboard + rat (wireless Logitech)- $73
Video card (ASUS V6800)- $263
Sound card (SB Live! Value)- $39
modem (something non-winmodem)- $50
floppy (errr... generic)- $10
building fees (cause every dog's gotta get a bone)- $50

total w/ an estimate of $100 shipping = $2148

whatcha think? all comments are GREATLY appreciated!!!

Thanks!!!

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[Bandit_22]

your friend is loaded

[Machupo]

yeah, no doubt... he was ready to spend like $3k on a pre-built system (Hell, Gayway, Crappard Bell, Hewlett Crappard, Comcraq, etc...)

hehe, i should've told 'im i could beat their prices by $400 to $500 and pocketed the rest, but what can i say, i'm a sucker for the un-initiated

anyone see problems with the system? things i forgot?

Thanks!

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[NiteOwl]

Can I be your friend too????

if he bought a dell, they would have crammed a M64 TNT2 32 mb down his throat plus a no o/c mobo.

[Machupo]

anyways...

he really wants to order it sometime before this weekend... so if you spot any problems, lemme gnow

thanks!

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[goffenhiemer]

You might want to make his computer cable modem ready by adding a NIC.

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-Goff

[Duckman]

How 'bout switching that Logitech rat to MS IntelliRat w. IntelliEye. Dam much smoother movement, and you dont have to worry about a sticky trackball. i love mine, thats for sure!!

Duckman

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Beats the heck outt of some quack charging me through the bill, just to grope a bunch of places I don't even touch....

Hardly ever.

[Candyman]

What about some case fans? You might want to add some big cfm suckers to keep it cool, especially if you are going to oc it.

Also, I agree with goffenhiemer, you should put a good NIC in there as well.

I spent some serious cash on my systems (I got four plus two I built recently for family members) , but not $2200 bucks for just one!

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[jopey]

MACHUPO. Drop the maxtor HD and pick up a Western digital or IBM. they aren't much more and they are better Hd's.

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Can some one stop those voices in my head telling me to Overclock my computer!!!

[Machupo]

finally... back from class...

Anyways, yes, i've got a couple of 80 cfm'ers i'm going to throw in there (one as a blowhole, the other as an input)

to answer the Q about the NIC... he already has one in his old system... i really told him that if he's going to get such a nice system (w/ DDR GeForce, esp.) that he's going to be doing a bunch of net gaming, and will really, really want a cable modem... so he's thinking about that... that's the reason that i didn't really specify a modem, cause he may decide to just go w/ the nic (but will probably need a modem when he goes home over break).

Is that Macro$haft mouse all it's cracked up to be? I had heard that IR isn't as good as radio (used by Logitech)... anyways, i could use some edukashun on this whole mouse thing

as for the hard drive... it needs to be UDMA/66 and around 13-20gb... but when i looked at the IBMs they were all quite a bit more expensive (with these specifications)

once again, any help is greatly appreciated!

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[BladeRunner]

Go with what Duckman said, I second that emotion as I have both here, an Intelieye explorer and a logitech cordless. Actually they are both connected and they both work. It's quite usefull when friends come round. I would prefer a Cordlees intelieye but I hardly use the logitech one now. It's a good mouse but the Microsoft one is just better. (It's also excellent in Q3)

Also maxtor HDD seem to be quite sensitive to oveclocked fsb's. I find Quantum or IBM better for this.

BladeRunner

[Toolbox]

Why don't you change the Hard drive to a Seagate Barracuda UDMA/66 20.4 GB?

[Rich]

Ditto on the hard drive. I tried one of those new 7200 RPM ata66 Maxtors and its performance didnt come close to my IBM hard drive... and it was actually a noticeable
differance.