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Hey guys

browsed thru the section where everyone offers what they can help SAU members out with. Question is for you all

Who can you recommend / send me to so i can get a new box built for my old man

Current specs:

AMD Athlon XP2500+

1.84 GHz

512Mb RAM

120Gb hard drive.

Peripherals are all modern, and basically we just need a new box

Needs Firewire card (or can supply one from current computer)

Roughly 6x USB ports (yes we have a few things to plug in hehe)

Network card

DVD Player / Burner (already hav a DVD RW, but wouldnt mind a second one just in case)

At least 1GB RAM, if not more

500GB or so for a HDD, not really fussed if its more, but at least that much

And the biggie - is there any way that we can get it with a copy of Windows XP Professional...............i mean i could supply a copy and just ring up to re-activate it (been there done that before) but wanted to see if there was still a chance of a copy of XP Pro still to be laying around

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The Jellybean keyfinder prevents legs being blown off. :)

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Video encoding? Big HD, Firewire?

Something along the lines of the below will do well..

$258 - CPU: Core 2 Duo E6420 (No point going slower unless you wish to overclock)

$169 - M/Board: Gigabyte 965P-DS3P (MSY have no DS3's in stock and are not sure when they will have stock)

$097 - RAM: 2gb (2x1gb) Kingston DDR2 667 (No need for 800mhz for general windows stuff, definitely not worth the extra unless you wish to overclock or game)

$195 - HD: Seagate 500gb (I've found Seagate to be more reliable than WD, never had one go belly up; had multiple WD's go belly up, all though I still have an old 20gb BB WD drive chuging along. )

$081 - VIDEO: ECS 7300GT (or spend another $100 for the 7900GS if you want to play the odd game)

$055 - DVD DRIVE: Anything.. I prefer LG but MSY don't have then.

$145 - CASE: Antec NSK6500

An even $1000.

That meets your >1gb of ram, 6usb, firewire & network requirements. :)

yeah, i could get you a box, that pritty much what i do for a living

XP Pro is no worries, got til Jan 2009 before you cant buy that any more (from us anyhows)

drop over one night, ask for luke (now if your still awake, i have some beers)... or drop by my work (link in sig)

i dont like MSY because a) they are cometition =P and b) they greay market.. but as if a bunch of skyline owners care about grey market computer bits =D

for price shopping, visit http://www.staticice.com.au/

and as mentioned above, MSY is now in Adel

http://msy.com.au/ dodgy website but their price is best

I can put the box together for FREE, if u cant find anyone to do it

  • 3 weeks later...

i know its re-hashing and old post, but on behalf of me my dad like to thank you all for your input. as we speak (i believe so anyway as he has dad's old box lol) luke (fishpaste) is building our newie :)

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