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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1893529" data-attributes="member: 149"><p>Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe ATX MB for Athlon64/FX - Retail $299.00</p><p>AMD Athlon64 3500+ (2.2 GHz) CPU - Retail $303.00</p><p>Maxtor 6Y080M0 80GB DiamondMax Plus9 Serial ATA 7200RPM 8MB OEM $77.00</p><p>Toshiba SD-R5112 DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW Combo Drive - Bulk (Drive Only) $68.00</p><p>512MB PC3200 CL3 DDR SDRAM Kingston Value RAM x2 $156.00</p><p>Albatron GeForce 6600GT 128MB DDR3 PCIe x16 TV-Out DVI $209.00</p><p>Antec SLK3700AMB ATX-12V Solution Series Mid Tower 350W - Metallic Bronze $77.00</p><p></p><p>Total $1,189.00</p><p><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>You could cut about $100 by dropping to a Athlon 3200+. The motherboard is relatively expensive, but lets you use the dual video cards for about a 75-100% speed improvement. It should be an excellent and very well equiped MB. The hardware built in Firewall is also a very good idea. But you could cut about $100-$150 by going with a cheaper MB. It is also probably not shipping until late this month/Jan. If you do decide to go with a less expensive MB I would probably still look for a nForce4 based MB. But as above, you would have quite a little kicker of a system. I am assuming that you salvage your floppy drive from the old machine. You could keep your CD-Rom drive as well if you wanted to save some more money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 1893529, member: 149"] Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe ATX MB for Athlon64/FX - Retail $299.00 AMD Athlon64 3500+ (2.2 GHz) CPU - Retail $303.00 Maxtor 6Y080M0 80GB DiamondMax Plus9 Serial ATA 7200RPM 8MB OEM $77.00 Toshiba SD-R5112 DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW Combo Drive - Bulk (Drive Only) $68.00 512MB PC3200 CL3 DDR SDRAM Kingston Value RAM x2 $156.00 Albatron GeForce 6600GT 128MB DDR3 PCIe x16 TV-Out DVI $209.00 Antec SLK3700AMB ATX-12V Solution Series Mid Tower 350W - Metallic Bronze $77.00 Total $1,189.00 :) You could cut about $100 by dropping to a Athlon 3200+. The motherboard is relatively expensive, but lets you use the dual video cards for about a 75-100% speed improvement. It should be an excellent and very well equiped MB. The hardware built in Firewall is also a very good idea. But you could cut about $100-$150 by going with a cheaper MB. It is also probably not shipping until late this month/Jan. If you do decide to go with a less expensive MB I would probably still look for a nForce4 based MB. But as above, you would have quite a little kicker of a system. I am assuming that you salvage your floppy drive from the old machine. You could keep your CD-Rom drive as well if you wanted to save some more money. [/QUOTE]
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