my dad just bought a computer..I thought it would be sufficient for playing games and doing school work (photoshop/html/c++) and eventually macromedia stuff. It's an emachines with a 3200+ 64...1 gig of 266mhz ram. it came with pc 3200 and i had a stick of 266mhz ram layin around, so i just tossed it in.
i'm thinking of building a new machine. i need somthing with balls though.
through my job (circuit city), i can get a dual core pentium 820 chip, motherboard, and a copy of xp PRO for 215.00 direct from intel. Also, i can get an x800 PCI-E for around 170.00
here's how i would like the rig to be.
Dual core pentium d 820
intel motherboard (215.00 for both)
2 gigs patriot memory (around 200.00)
2 samsung 120 gb's in a raid 0 setup (whatever the performance setup is..75.00 each)
1 western digital 320 (140 on newegg)
ati x800 (170)
2 dvdrw's (45 a piece)
antec 450 watt psu (80.00)
whatever style case
massive cooler for the pentium d
what does everyone think. I've been biased to AMD for most of my life but the price of this dual core pentium is nice..
BTW- any circuit city employees on here know how to get stuff from any other retailers like amd or any other technology brands?
