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Ok I am really up for a new box. Other than the monitor, Key Board and mouse, I pretty much need everything. I have about an $800 budget. Will I get something fairly decent for that ? or do I need to up the cash flow ?
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you might 'find' one at Uni :lol:
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LOL funny you should say that. I was advised to go see the tech people. They often have older boxes (year or so old) that they replace, and that I might get one for free. But somehow I don't really want to do that. I feel like I am imposing, or trying to rip them off. Is that strange ?
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for new gear, going to be pushing for something great.

cpu - $120 AMD sempron 2800 Socket 754
mobo - $100 basic 754 mobo
ram - $65 512MB PC3200
vid - $200 6600GT
hdd? - 200gig sata2 WD $140 or 120gig WD sata2 for $120
case - basic antec $120 350W PSU
dvd - $75 dual layer burner

So for about $820 you get something ok. But it's not great. will perform well in most things, but the cpu is a little on the slow side. If you can afford to go to an amd athlon or Pentium D solution, this would be a good improvement (about $100 more I would guess with a basic mobo). RAM is another thing you could spend the extra moolah on.

Hope this helps. You may also need an OS :) WinXP home OEM is about $159. Aussie dollar is on the down against the US atm, hence the price increases for some things :(

(most geeks would say that that is a weird feeling :) but i'd feel the same)

NB. Just grabbed prices from a random shop i know of. Not the best prices by any means, but they're about the average.
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Well I don't need a DVD burner (thats about all thats good in this POS system)
In case people are wondering. Its a AMD 1400+ (PIII aquivilent I think) with a whopping 256 meg of SD Ram and a 40 gig HD.
Its old, its pointless and its pissing me off. So I gotta lash out even though I really cant aford too. This system is just too slow to even run
windows applications now. Takes a good 5 min just to load Photoshop (as its bouncing off of virtual memory all the time).

As for windows XP Pro. I have that :)
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CPU and/or ram are the things to spend your spare cash on :)

If you do lots of things at once on your computer (run lots of apps at once) go for the ram.

If you don't, then spend on the cpu :)
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cheers mate. Will look into it
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