This is a list of computer parts that I put togeather to show the kind of deal you can get by putting your computer togeather yourself.

Premium Doom 2535 Black ATX Mid-Tower Case with Front USB and Audio Ports and 400-Watt 20/24-Pin Power Supply

Price - $44.99


ABIT KU8 ULi Socket 754 ATX Motherboard and an AMD Sempron 64 2800+ 1.60GHz Processor

Price - $134.99


Maxtor / DiamondMax 10 / 160GB / 7200 / 16MB / ATA-133 / EIDE / OEM / RoHS Compliant Hard Drive

Price - $89.99

$40 mail-in rebate

Price after rebate - $49.99


Kingston Dual Channel 512MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz Memory (2 x 256MB)

Price - $49.99


PowerColor Radeon 9250 / 128MB DDR / AGP 8X / VGA / DVI / TV Out / Video Card

Price - $39.99


Lite-on SOHC-5236K / 52x32x52x CD-RW / 16x DVD-ROM / Black / Combo Drive

Price - $33.99


Ultra 18" Rounded Blue IDE Cable For 2 Devices

Price - $4.99

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Total

$398.93

Total after rebates

$358.93

This post has been edited by miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG: Jan 6 2006, 10:35 AM

IMO you should be weary of the motherboard u buy....a bad quality motherboard can makeur life hell..i am talking from personal experience.

I can agree on the motherboard problem.... I had one that just didn't seem to be compatable with my GeForce 4 Ti4200 (I guess other people had the same problem). It would lock the system in a blue screen in Windows XP, which under normal circumstances was almost non-existent for me. At one point, it completely crashed when I was playing Clive Barker's Undying... and completely corrupted the hard drive to the point of it was smoking when I turned the computer on.... And it wasn't the hard drive's fault, because it was the third one that went out on me with that system.

I later got an ATI Radeon x800 Pro, and haven't had any problems since
*knock on wood*