Help me spend $1500
Mar 28, 2006 at 4:01 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 69
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So i went down to the tax place today fearing the worst, i haven't done my taxes since tax year 2001
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To my delight i am getting about $2200 on Friday, and another $1000 in GST whenever the government decides to do it, the tax guy estimated July
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oh well.
Anyways, I'm going to save $700 from the $2200, so that leaves about $1500, i am running a celeron 400 with a 10 gig hardrive so i need a new pc BAD, i plan on spending $700-$1000 on this. i don't game at all so i don't need a nutty graphics card or a crazy fast processor but i do need suggestions on what kind of pc components i should get. there is a good local store in town that will build you a pc from scratch for good prices.
Questions...
Athlon, intel, or other?
1gig or 2 gigs of ram? and what kind?
Big hard drive for lots of audio, 200 gig, any suggestions on brand?
Any suggestions on other components is appreciated.

Also What should i buy with the other $500-$800?
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Mar 28, 2006 at 4:19 AM Post #3 of 69
Conroe? Enlighten me please....
 
Mar 28, 2006 at 5:48 AM Post #5 of 69
For your PC, the Athlon64 is probably the best deal on the block these days. I think Ars Technica or Tom's Hardware ran a long piece on this a few months back. Get one of the single core ones. I believe you can find a 3000+ around $120 these days. It is an excellent proc. It'll handle anything you'd want to do. A good 939 motherboard should be about $100. RAM is cheap these days, so grab 2GB- it should run $150 or less if you look around. Most current production video cards probably have more power than you need, so a decent nVidia or ATI should run $50-$100. Pick up the Chaintech sound card, and nose around places like www.newegg.com and www.outpost.com for a hard drive on special. I saw a 250GB Maxtor for $84 the other week- that's a great deal. Now, if you can get that into the case you already have, you might be able to pull this off for $500-$600 or so.

As for the rest? Spend it on headphones, of course!
 
Mar 28, 2006 at 5:56 AM Post #7 of 69
I'll suggest to you what I wanted to buy with part of my $1200 return, but, ended up doing the responsible thing (payed bills)...go for an xbox 360. On the bright side, now that I don't have as much in bills, I'm looking at a picking up a 360 soon anyway...
 
Mar 28, 2006 at 7:08 AM Post #8 of 69
Quote:

Originally Posted by Uncle Erik
For your PC, the Athlon64 is probably the best deal on the block these days. I think Ars Technica or Tom's Hardware ran a long piece on this a few months back. Get one of the single core ones. I believe you can find a 3000+ around $120 these days. It is an excellent proc. It'll handle anything you'd want to do. A good 939 motherboard should be about $100. RAM is cheap these days, so grab 2GB- it should run $150 or less if you look around. Most current production video cards probably have more power than you need, so a decent nVidia or ATI should run $50-$100. Pick up the Chaintech sound card, and nose around places like www.newegg.com and www.outpost.com for a hard drive on special. I saw a 250GB Maxtor for $84 the other week- that's a great deal. Now, if you can get that into the case you already have, you might be able to pull this off for $500-$600 or so.

As for the rest? Spend it on headphones, of course!


thanks for the info! if i were to put more money into it, what would be the next best upgrade? motherboard? proccesor?
 
Mar 28, 2006 at 7:34 PM Post #10 of 69
$500-$800... hmmmm.... have you ordered your E500's yet?
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Maybe some ES2's??
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Mar 28, 2006 at 7:37 PM Post #11 of 69
My suggestion would be to pick up a Dell, since it's going to be significantly cheaper than "build your own" unless you're looking to pirate a copy of Windows XP. I've seen Dell desktops with 17" LCD monitors go for under $400. That's basically buying Windows and a monitor and getting a computer for free.

Then use the rest of the money you were planning on using for a computer on an Xbox 360 or the Shure E500.
 
Mar 28, 2006 at 7:50 PM Post #14 of 69
1500 bucks? I could make that in like 6 seconds, GOSH!
Slade
 
Mar 28, 2006 at 7:55 PM Post #15 of 69
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Originally Posted by Sladeophile
1500 bucks? I could make that in like 6 seconds, GOSH!
Slade


Doing what exactly? o_O
 
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