MSI is as good as ASUS, to keep cost low and still high quality and performance, I pick MSI K7T Turbo which is even 133A.
You can change Radeon LE to cheaper TNT2M64 to lower the price.
Maxtor HD is as good as IBM, many people here'd pick Maxtor over IBM. If you must get ibm, newegg also has IBM for more.
For the price your bro need to pay you and you need to pay for shipping,
I'd say your bro is NOT getting a good deal.
The best solution is to just send the cpu, mb, ram, vga card, hd (wrap it well) thru usps insured, and buy the case locally even paying unreasonable price. It's not really unreasonable, the computer shop has to pay huge shipping to get the stuff to Alaska, and supply and demand, so end up such high retail price.)
I can only accept he pays $300 and you pay the shipping and keep the case.
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"no no no,, king i would say 400 is nice price.. i am building my sister one,, and i think her budget is 1000 so i am going to give her my MX and get a better vid card say a PRO or Ultra.. and would you say that is ripping her off... na..... just BROTHERLY LOVE ! "
bjc112, your situation is different, you're helping her to build a new system, not selling her an old system at new price. I'd say you're ripping her off if you sell her the mx for the price of pro/ultra.