Upgrading my computer was one of the best things i've ever done for myself. With a $1200 license to kill from my dad plus 350 bucks of my own, i was able to get a computer that is now envied by everyone i know. (i'm enjoying it while my reign lasts)

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Certainly a good egg!

I love that store. For 1499 + 41shipping i was able to get this:

ENERMAX WHITE/BLUE ATX 10-BAY MID-TOWER CASE w/ POWERUP 300W POWER SUPPLY

2 WD WESTERN DIGITAL "SPECIAL EDITION" 80GB 7200RPM EIDE HARD DRIVES - OEMS

Soyo SY-KT400 Dragon Ultra (Platinum Edition) Motherboard

AMD ATHLON XP 2200+ - OEM

Thermaltake DRAGON ORB3

CORSAIR MEMORY XMS 512MB PC-2700C2PT With Platinum - Silver Heat Spreader - OEM

SAPPHIRE RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB DDR TV/DVI 8X AGP - OEM

SONY 15.0" TFT LCD MONITOR Model SDM

I reused my MS Keyboard & Mouse, the Mitsumi Floppy, 40X Burner, 16X DVD-ROm I haven't overclocked anything yet. I have good options for that though. I'll wait till the competition in my area gets close first. Most of the items are OEM. That doesn't both me. They all came with whatever standard software i needed. The cpu didn't come with any fan. that's why i got that thermaltake. It's only been three days and the sound from that fan is beginning to get to me. That's about the only problem i have now. The only that's left to be desired is probably a powerful sound card from creative and a set of speakers. I'll get those soon

I'm not bragging but i just want to show how easy it is to upgrade any system now, especially at newegg. I highly recommend it to anyone, newbie, experts, everybody. And their fedex shipping is excellent only two-days.

Running this Athlon system compared to what i running before is a dream come true. Things that use to take forever to be done now happen at the blink of an eye. (sometimes i scare myself)

Some people on this forum have been saying how windows 98 & 2000 are better than xp. With a system like mine, XP is the best Microsft performer. redhat comes in second, but that probably because i like it. I boot 98, 2k,XP, Redhat and Mandrake and use System Commander 7 as my boot loader.

Post your specs, and let's compare and see where i can improve apon.

wow, you may as well as work for newegg.com's marketing team :0), anyways, one area I think you can improve is your power supply, 300w is barely enough. and since you wanted to compare specs, ok..here's my to-be built system

P4 2.8GHz with Thermalright AX-478 on Asus P4T533
512MB -> 1GB Samsung PC-1066 RDRAM
Either two western digital WD1200JB hard drives or a single WD2000JB
ATI Radeon 9700pro
Soundblaster audigy platinum
Antec Plus1080B case with TrueBlue480 PSU
Some generic NIC with Gigabit support and 56k modem
Klipsch Promdeia 5.1 speakers with decoder
Logitech Cordless elite duo
Plextor 48/24/48CD-RW, any 48X CD-ROM, any 16x DVD-ROM, a future DVD+R/W
generic floppy drive with Atech Pro II
and of course, an acrylic window case, with blue cold cathode lights and blue LED case fas and sliver rounded IDE cables

What do you think? Price = approx. $2000 (thank goodness for ebay!)

Here also is my soon to be built system:
Asus A7V333 KT333 mobo
AMD Athlon XP 2200
Corsair 512 PC 2700 DDR
Geforce 4 Ti 4400
Western Digital 40 gig HD
Sound Blaster Audigy
(Some sort of case which can fit water cooling)

It isn't as good as yours but it suffice in my gaming needs.

Newegg probably can't afford me with those low prices that they always seem to get.

hats off to n3985, good job.
I don't like/hate INTEL. You can be assured that i'll be getting that 2800+ as soon as it is available.

You that's the only thing that i get hate about AMD. What are they so slow? I know they have to work on their products but they really shouldn't keep us/me waiting. and what's up with the FSB. when's it gonna go up.

forgot to ask about the power supply. how much should i get. I'm running two 80gig hard drives, cdrw,dvd-rom,casefan.

Come to think about it now. i really need a better powersupply. I haven't been getting any problems though. Right now i'm burning a couple of cds and watching a dvd.

What about my orb. is it suppose to make that much noise.

does newegg have a website?, if so plz post it

Jason!!! It's newegg.com

~Death-Knight~

Computers that fast make mine look bad. You could try getting a quiter heatsink. The Zalman CNPS6000-Cu flower heatsink only goes up to like 35 decibels or something and works really well. 400W should be sufficient for your power supply, but you might want to get more like 500W if you plan on adding more hard drives and making a RAID array or something of that nature.

Bucks, good luck on the A7V333 I would wait a while till they get the bugs worked out of that board.I had to RMA 3 of them I finnaly went wuth the GA-7VRXP . It works

To Narvind: I think a good 430w will not only be enough now, but also will last when you add more power guzzlers in the future (gfx and CPU will only comsume more and more). As for the intel/amd issue, both of them their fastest processors are usually the same speed, intel as of now as the upper hand, but when the 2800 comes out, who knows...I prefer intel is because i got bit by the intel bug (lol) and I prefer a cooler system. Also, for your fan noise problem, I suggest getting a new performance heatsink, THEn put on a smaller and slower fan with less noise. My heatsink of choice is Thermalright. Like any modern heatsink, you choose the 80mm fan to put on, it could be a Delta fan that puts out 82cfm with a 52dBA rating, or some generic 32cfm with 28dBa fan. What I'm doing is this: P4 -> Thermalright AX-478 ->generic 80mm fan with blue LED -> Alien face grill, so when the case mod is done, I can see thru it and see my processor badged with an alien!

hey guys just for the sake of fun tell me if my dweem system sounds cool.

Processor: 2.8 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
Mother Board: Intel Server Board support for 2 processors
Ram:At least 1.5 Gb RD Ram
V.G.A:The new creative Wild Cat 128 MB
Sound Card:Creative Extigy 5.1
H.D.D:A 180 GB 10,000 RPM
CD,CD-RW,DVD Combo
A Digital Projector for some big fun
A Kenwood 5.1 Speaker System 3500 Watts
Rest Keyboard Mouse anyone as long as they work and a NASA shuttle to go with it if i decide to go to the moon

Ill get this stuff as soon as i hit the Bank of England

They have those shuttles on pricewatch for $2,500,000.00 OEM only but what the hell? Its worth it.

Well. My system just arried in bits.

All working now though!

XP2000, 512 DDR333, ATI Radeon 9000pro64meg, Maxtor 30 gig ATA100 7200rpm, DVD/CDRW, bog standard sound card (soon to be a sound blaster live 5.1)

TOP OF THE RANGE, FAST AS YOU CAN GET 1.44 floppy LMAO.

Oh, and when it gets here....

Winnov Videum professional video conferencing, capturing webcam card.

Mmmmm.

ASUS P4S333 mainboard $75
2.53B GHZ Pentium 4 $265
512MB DDR333 PC2700 RAM $135
80GB WD 8MB Cache Hard Drive $140
GeForce4 4200 Ti 128MB DDR $175
48x16x48 CD-RW $50
16x48 DVD-ROM $50
350Watt Dual power supply $60
56K Modem $30
Floppy Drive $20
USB mini scroll mouse $15
Basic Eagletouch keyboard $7
Medium tower $26
Windows ME clean-installed $90

$1,138.00 Total