Dear lazyweb..

[theducks]

Thinking of getting this for lizbyrd's brother:

Asus Mainboard P5N32-E SLI Plus - 		$290 [Austin]
	LGA775, C55+MCP55P; a.k.a. 
	nForce®650i SLI & nForce®570 SLI,
	Intel Quad Core2 CPU ready,
	FSB1333MHz,Dual-CH,DDR2-800
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 CPU 				$169
	Dual Core EMT64T 1.86G 800Mhz FSB
1024Mb DDR2 800 Memory 					$ 89
	Ramos Hynix / Lemel Veritech
Gigabyte GeForce 8500 GT 256M			$168
350W ATX P4 Power Supply				$ 39
							Total:		$755

Comments?

Comments

[pt.livejournal.com]

SLI ready, quad core ready, 8500GT.. is a puny 350W PSU enough?

[goth-grrl.livejournal.com]

Not the comment you were looking for, but: wait, upgrading my PC would be that cheap?

[silne.livejournal.com]

You can do it for less if you already have a decent power supply and case to put it in :-D

[silne.livejournal.com]

I second pt's comment about the power supply. I would so NOT put anything less than a 450W of a reputable brand in that.

(Cheap reputable brands include but are not limited to: Superflower. I have one and hubby's had one for YEARS and they're ace.)

Also, why Intel?

[coxymla.livejournal.com]

350 W is probably enough.

The 8500 is fuckign terrible shit though so I wouldn't personally recommend it (slower than the older 7600 GT if you can get one of them.)

[dilettantiquity.livejournal.com]

What does he use it for? Will a 256M video card cut it?

navada.com.au can get generic RAM with the same same specs you've quoted, but a little cheaper: 1GB DDR2 800 (PC2-6400) Memory Module $ 69.30

They also have this video card for $174.20: Nvidia 7600GS 512 MB DDR2 AGP

Any particular reason for the Intel CPU? I went with AMD this time because their dual cores benchmarked better for the things I was interested in (*cough* WoW *cough), although it certainly varies and the Intels do some things better.

You can get AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+ Socket AM2 DUAL CORE 65W CPU (2.3GHz) for $140 or AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+ Socket AM2 DUAL CORE 65W CPU (2.5GHz) for $168.

PS I prefer Navada to Austin, although they can be a little more expensive for some things. But they're not MOTHERF***ING RUDE JERKS WHO'VE SCREWED ME AROUND FOR THE LAST TIME. *shakes fist*

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, only one of the bits is coming from Austin, everything else is coming from Netplus, where silverai works :-)

As for intel vs AMD.. I needed a spiffy board that had two IDE channels for his existing drives. There's no decently priced ones in AMD land that I can see.