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 Member 175 Level 58.82 Mar 2006 
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I'm with Merv on this one, kid. If you built it yourself you'd shave a good $500-$600 off that price tag for the tower alone, even if you built yourself a monster gaming rig. I really recommend that you get to looking at places like Pricewatch to research your options in building a machine for yourself.
Just a year ago I built a friend of mine a rig for his living room and for a 3 ghz Pentium Core 2 Duo, 1.5 GB DDR RAM, two 500 GB Maxtor SATA hard drives, a 512 MB ATI Radeon X1650 video card, a Pioneer 8x DVD+RW drive, a multimedia card reader and installed it into a black base-model Antec gaming case. Altogether he paid $970 for the above specs and he bought himself a 22" widescreen monitor at Best Buy for like $130 on Black Friday (After Thanksgiving sale). I don't know if he's made any upgrades to it since, but I always thought that was a killer deal for a machine with THOSE specs. Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Member 175 Level 58.82 Mar 2006
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Pricewatch isn't a store, it's sort of an amalgamation of prices submitted from online stores all over the States and you kind of have to look around and see where you can get the best deals. It takes some work, but it's scads better than dropping and extra $500 to have someone else do a subpar job for you.
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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