- May 28, 2003
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Nephew needs a rig, his daddy knows nothing about computers, I told him ~$1.3K will make a good rig (hey if I'mma build it, might as well be a good rig). He loves BF2 and BF1942 (plays it at my house all the time), so I'm going with a very beefy video card.
So far I've got the following parts:
EVGA SLI Motherboard (comes free with the video card)
Athlon 64 3200 OEM (CPU and Fan are from ewiz, saves me $50 compared to newegg)
Coolermaster Heatsink with 80MM FAN
1gb Corsair Valueselect DDR400
EVGA Geforce 7800GT 256MB GDDR
Maxtor 200GB SATA 16mb cache
Nec black 16xDVD-RW
Nec black floppy
Chenming midtower case
Fortron AX450 450W PSU w/12CM fan (has dual 18A 12v+ rails)
microsoft black keyboard/mice combo
Rig total = $976 (final shipping price, $936 if you count the Evga $40 MIR )
This leaves me with roughly $324 for a monitor and printer. I was thinking on a KDS 19inch which does 1600x1200@75hz for $99 at walmart (monitor I use) and $150 on a good HP laserJet (inkjets suck for heavy printing duties). Are there any good 17" LCD's that will fit the budget AND the 7800GT GPU?
THoughts?
So far I've got the following parts:
EVGA SLI Motherboard (comes free with the video card)
Athlon 64 3200 OEM (CPU and Fan are from ewiz, saves me $50 compared to newegg)
Coolermaster Heatsink with 80MM FAN
1gb Corsair Valueselect DDR400
EVGA Geforce 7800GT 256MB GDDR
Maxtor 200GB SATA 16mb cache
Nec black 16xDVD-RW
Nec black floppy
Chenming midtower case
Fortron AX450 450W PSU w/12CM fan (has dual 18A 12v+ rails)
microsoft black keyboard/mice combo
Rig total = $976 (final shipping price, $936 if you count the Evga $40 MIR )
This leaves me with roughly $324 for a monitor and printer. I was thinking on a KDS 19inch which does 1600x1200@75hz for $99 at walmart (monitor I use) and $150 on a good HP laserJet (inkjets suck for heavy printing duties). Are there any good 17" LCD's that will fit the budget AND the 7800GT GPU?
THoughts?