$500 (US)

Ok, let your imaginations go, for 500 bucks, best combination of
motherboard, cpu and memory? What about motherboards that we know are
coming out soon? I'm trying to decide if I should stay with my current
processor ( XP 1900+) or since I am buying a new motherboard switch
processors as well. Obviously I'll get more speed out of a new processor,
but at what costs? Then again, if I let myself get a new processor then the
board I can get will be different as well. Decisions decisions.

Chris Martin wrote:
Ok, let your imaginations go, for 500 bucks, best combination of
motherboard, cpu and memory? What about motherboards that we know are
coming out soon? I'm trying to decide if I should stay with my current
processor ( XP 1900+) or since I am buying a new motherboard switch
processors as well. Obviously I'll get more speed out of a new processor,
but at what costs? Then again, if I let myself get a new processor then the
board I can get will be different as well. Decisions decisions.



You can get one heck of a mobo/cpu/memory combo for $500. The place I
ordered my last combo from was Access Micro. Right at
www.accessmicro.com. They've got pretty good prices on their combos, and
a nice configuration chooser.

Here's an extremely fast combo. An Asus A7V600 with their new Serial ATA
drive interface, an AMD XP 3200+ (2.2 ghz), and a full gigabyte of
Kingston ram in two 512 meg chips. All for about $526.

Intel BOXD865GBFL i865G SK478 800FSB Dual Ch DDR400, AGP 8X, SATA
150,w/Video/Audio/Lan ATX MB - Retail Price: $ 105.89
Board comes with cables and setup CD, auto-sensing/ no jumpers to set.

Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHZ 800FSB Socket 478 512K ( BX80532PG3000D ) CPU Retail
with Heatsink and Fan**Free Shipping** Price: $ 229.89

Kingston 512MB Kit ( 2x256MB ) PC3200 DDR 400MHz( KVR400X64C3AK2/512) CL3 -
Retail * Free Shipping *Our price $118.89
Runs well with 512, but I recommend a second kit to take advantage of Dual
channel memory. I run single channel currently. (Win 98)

Future Case 228 Blue 2.0 USB AMD / P4 Ready with 400w Power Supply, Case
Fan Price: $ 38.00 Nice case, has front USB2, side fan. Everything on
Mboard leaves 7 expansion slots. easy build.

105.89
229.89
118.89
38.00
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$492.67

http://www.essencompu.com/

"Chris Martin" wrote in message
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Ok, let your imaginations go, for 500 bucks, best combination of
motherboard, cpu and memory? What about motherboards that we know are
coming out soon? I'm trying to decide if I should stay with my current
processor ( XP 1900+) or since I am buying a new motherboard switch
processors as well. Obviously I'll get more speed out of a new processor,
but at what costs? Then again, if I let myself get a new processor then
the
board I can get will be different as well. Decisions decisions.

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:13:34 -0400, "Chris Martin"
wrote:

Ok, let your imaginations go, for 500 bucks, best combination of
motherboard, cpu and memory? What about motherboards that we know are
coming out soon? I'm trying to decide if I should stay with my current
processor ( XP 1900+) or since I am buying a new motherboard switch
processors as well. Obviously I'll get more speed out of a new processor,
but at what costs? Then again, if I let myself get a new processor then the
board I can get will be different as well. Decisions decisions.

Id get the parts I mentioned OC barton 2500 to 3200 etc and save $200+
Theres already talk about new graphics cards and BTX formfactors and
theres the 64 bit AMD and talk about new Intel chips so - that would
make do and not depreciate as much when the new stuff comes out a year
or so from now.