05-11-2003, 06:41 AM | #1 | ||
Retired
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Fantasyland
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Best place to buy bare bones sys?
We've had a lot of discussions on where to buy new 'puter systems. However, I don't need a brand new system.
I already have a GForce 4200, a SoundBlaster Live!, mouse, keyboard, ethenet card, monitor, speakers, Win XP, hard drives, CD burner, ect... All I want is the case, memory, chip, fans and heatsinks. It's that simple. And I don't want to have to pay for extras I'm not going to use. But I don't want to have to put that together. So where's the best place to get that at a reasonable price? Here's the specs I'm thinking of: AMD 2200 Motherboard (DDR 400) 512K DDR 400 RAM Good, solid case with lots of fans |
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05-11-2003, 07:28 AM | #2 |
College Starter
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: SE
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http://www.tigerdirect.com or http://www.pricewatch.com
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05-11-2003, 09:36 AM | #3 |
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Cicero
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Let me say one thing here Blackie - avoid OCSystems like the plague. They will overclock an XP1700+ to the clock levels of a 2200+ and sell it to you as a 2200+. They are especially bad with this about memory.
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05-11-2003, 11:23 AM | #4 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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I bought mine from United Micro
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05-11-2003, 11:24 AM | #5 |
"Dutch"
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Tampa, FL
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I've been putting machines together through TigerDirect.com since I have been living in Turkey. I have purchased 3 motherboards, 2 processors, a lot of memory, hard drives, video cards including a VisionTek Radeon 9800, cd drives, writers, keyboards, mice, and even cases and accessories.
They aren't the best place to go, alot of their stuff is refurbished, but I have only had the displeasure of returning one item, a really bad Pentium 4 ZFX motherboard that was incompatable with my Sound Blaster Audigy and Geforce card. And that was ZFX's problem, not TigerDirect. I have also gotten some great deals by patiently playing the Ebay game. Good luck in whatever you decide to do. |
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