I'll bet you $100 he's not happy now!

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Why in the heck do you have 4GB of RAM?!?! And I love that despite 4GB being utterly useless, you spent a measily $80 on a hard drive that isn't all that big by today's standards, and isn't as fast as some other drives like the Raptors or Seagate perpendicular recording drives. Even buying two hard drives, one for OS, the other for games, would have done more good than 4GB of RAM. Games barely benefit from 2GB, so why you needed 4gb is beyond me. XP has a hard time using it effectively even if it did in fact need it. $270 on speakers was a waste since the Z5300's would have been fine since you paid for a dolby digital decoder in your soundcard already. While we're on the topic of the soundcard, the onboard ram on that sound card does little to no good, so you overspent there. Heck, for the money you spent, I have 2x 19" LCD's and spent less than a third on my machine, and if I upgraded my video card and processor, my machine would perform as well or better and cost about half as much. The PSU is a joke. You actually owe it to yourself to go buy a nice PSU for this rig. What a spectacular waste of money! "How many squirrels had to die to make you look fly?!"

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I was just going to say the 4GB is a Total waste if he is running XP 32-bit as it will not even recognize it all. It is only a partial waste if he will be running 64-bit as it can utilize all of that memory. It would only be useful though with a lot of multitasking. I can't agree more with the quote above by Thomas Tusser. So many poor choices in this build. Michael J

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Allow me to add another mistake to your list. The reason escapes me on why you would a have such a powerful video card/Processor combination and only 19" monitor to view one third of its potental on. That is less then 1.4 megapixels for a display. digital FujiFilm camera pumps out 4.1 megapixels images, which translates into a resolution of 2560x1600. The 7950 GX2 can handle modren damanding games at these ridiculously high resolutions (2560x1600), they were designed for extreme HD gaming. Pairing a 7950 GX2 with a 19" monitor is an insult to that card. What good is are that hardware when your playing your games on an Etch-a-Sketch? Go with a 24" display, or the cheaper option, a projector. Definitely not one of these... http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/etch2.jpg Prescott 2.8Ghz Oc'ed @ 3.6Ghz; 5:4 ratio Abit Is7-E Motherboard, i865-PE Chipset Muskin pc3200 Enhanced, 412Mhz; 2.5-3-3-6 Pny 6800nu; 430Mhz 820Mhz; 16p,5vp Two 36Gb Raptors in raid0 a

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"I was just going to say the 4GB is a Total waste if he is running XP 32-bit as it will not even recognize it all." It's a waste, but your statement isn't accurate. XP 32-bit will full recognize 4GB of RAM. Granted it won't utilize it well, but just FYI. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx "How many squirrels had to die to make you look fly?!"

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"CORSAIR XMS2 PC2 5400 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2 SDRAM System Memory - $380" Also don't forget if you run 4x DIMMS, you will be forced to use 2T command rate instead of 1T... That's the reason why I sold my old 1GB corsair VS kit for $80 and bought 2GB OCZ platnium kit for $160... "What a spectacular waste of money!" "U.S. Robotics USR5633A 56Kbps USB External Modem - $50" No further comment on this one... TMP-Man Asus P5P800-SE PAT P4 506 @ 4009Mhz 1.3625v Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 1700RPM 92MM + AS5 2GB OCZ 2-3-2-5 DDR400 120GB/300GB 7200RPM HD MSI 6600GT AGP 565/1100 VF700 ALCU AS5

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I was gonna reply to this one, but i think it's already been said.. The things I could do with $3500.. Gigabyte GA-K8NS Athlon64 3000+ Venice E6 Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu LED X800XL 256MB AGP 1GB Corsair PC3200 VS 120GB WD/160GB Maxtor Aspire Chameleon 550W

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Well, there isn't much to say, except with the spechs that you purchased, does the system run stable? I'm kinda surprized on the 420w power supply. it kinda looks like you didn't shop around very much, and were in too quick of a hurry. I've been researching my new gaming rig for 3 months now, and still haven't decided what to get. Well there is my input.

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