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Hi Acerbic,
I'm in Ontario so we can talk real dollars here - the Queen's picture, right?
I can build a heck of a rig for $1500 bucks. Are you including monitor in that price?
Athlon64 x2 3800+ CPUs are found in $1000 rigs. For fifteen hundred we can do better. Big money is invested in memory and vidcards, and motherboards and especially harddisks are inexpensive.
CPUs are quite a range; you can spend big if you wish to. You can spend generously if determined to spend $1500 - I recommend Core 2.
Even the smallest Core2 CPU, E6300 (Allendale) is great for you.
Lemme see here - Asus P5B-E mobo, E6300, 2GB OCZ Special Ops PC2-5400, and that BFG 7900GT OC (nice :^) are pretty well $1000 bucks CDN in Toronto right now. Just the memory and vidcard are almost $600 bucks right there...
Polish it off with a nice case and powersupply, you could spend $200 for that - or you could spend $400 dollars, heheh...
But a nice OCZ GameXStream 600W is what, only $140 bucks so no need to overspend (I am not personally into flashy cases, but could spend big on aluminum if wealthy).
So there's a good rig for you, another $150 bucks for 2 SATA HDs and you're good to go for $1500. Another $40 bucks for DVD burner, ah well I guess your new widescreen LCD monitor isn't going to fit for $1500, heheh...
But we can make everything fit, if you want.
I am (we are) specifying top-drawer, 2007-model memory and vidcard for you and if you want that all to fit the lesser $1000 pricepoint I would select:
Asus P5B-E
Core2 E6300
2 x 512MB PC2-5400
ATI X1650Pro 512MB
Case & powersupply - OCZ 600W?
160GB/8MB HD
DVD burner
$1000 bucks!
But if you want those good powersupplies and Vista memory, you're gonna go over... LoL
Regards
ABit AB9 Pro
Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 @ 2.4GHz
2GB OCZ PC2-6400 Platinum XTC R2
ATI Radeon X1900XT 512MB
Enermax Liberty 620W
320GB/16MB WD, 150GB/16MB Raptor
Plextor PX-755SA DVD (SATA)
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