alright cool ill go with the 7600GT with the mail in rebate. And twsmit, Again, Im not buying two power supplys, the one the computer is not powerfull so im taking it out and putting a 500Watt one in there.
Also twsmit that would be great for u too pick out the parts for me!
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Anyways I think this puts you in a far better position, this would be more powerful and better configured IMO. Its in your price range, but a hair more expsnive. I wont lie, and I will say your getting a good deal with the prebuilt, based soley on the $100+ instant price reduction rebate.
Although the parts are inferior, that $100+ rebate makes it hard to configure a system for the exact same price, including an OS. If you forgo the OS and "aquire" a copy somewhere else you can shave off $85.
My post is my best attempt at meeting the price of the computer you configured. If you can extend the budget a little, I would pick up the better motherboard, the second one I posted, or upgrade the video card to a x1800GTO.
I went with the 3800+ X2 because this gets you into a dualcore for the lowest price, after that you can easily overclock the CPU to make up for the 400mhz gap between it and the 4000+ single core you picked out. Overclocking with an A64 is ridiculously easy and something I would recommend after you have your computer for a few weeks and break her in.
True, its a little more, but the parts in the rebuilt are inferior for the most part. Your getting marginally crappier computer for $50 less than a "good" computer.
4 sticks of ram runs the memory at 2T timings (if its a clawhammer your memory will drop down to DDR333 speed.), a PATA hard drive is outdated, and your buying an expensive single core (and we dont even know which core it is, could be a clawhammer or San Diego). Also the motherboard is lower quality and has an inferior ATI chipset. The only time to get an ATI chipset right now currently is if you plan on running Crossfire, since your getting an Nvidia card, this doesnt make much sense.
Anyways do as you please, but those would be my justifications for building it from scratch.
If you must go prebuilt why dont you get it prebuilt correctly the way you want it? I'm sure there are places that sell computers... try Tiger Direct that allow you to customise the computer much more than Newegg. Its pretty ridiculous to buy this with the intention of stripping it down.
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Take this one, upgrade to a 7600GT, 2GB of ram, and throw on an OS and its again right in your budget for example. With better parts.
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