Thread: Just built my PC for college

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    Just built my PC for college

    After putting in around $300 into fixing up the computer I"m on now, my dad decided he'd pay for the parts to get me my own PC for college and experimentation. I just spec'd it out for $280 (I have all the spare case, psu, fan, etc already)

    Epox mobo EP-8Kmm3I via km400 chipset
    (onboard everything)
    AMD 2500 Barton
    1 Gig DDR 2700 ram

    i've got all the drives already too, so what do you guys think for that price? Good deal?
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    sounds about right

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    Normally, on-board grahics chipsets are a bit 'old' compared to their AGP counterparts.

    Not sure what VGA comes w/ your board, but you could always consider a better card.

    I have MSI K7N (a bit old) and everything on board it has is fine w/ me, but I wish the VGA were better than just 32 MBs of GeForce 2 MX!
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    unichrome graphics is the brand
    I plan on upgrading later, or if i find out htat linux doesn't like it
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    $280 for a motherboard, CPU, and 1 GB of DDR 2700 RAM? Holy crap that is cheap, dude. I'd pay $280 CDN for 1GB of RAM, and that would end up being 3200, but still... man.
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    Originally posted by Xei
    $280 for a motherboard, CPU, and 1 GB of DDR 2700 RAM? Holy crap that is cheap, dude. I'd pay $280 CDN for 1GB of RAM, and that would end up being 3200, but still... man.
    While I don't know the exact prices he paid, here's a (close) guess:

    CPU - $85
    Motherboard - $65
    That leaves $130 for the RAM.

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    all from newegg.com

    mobo-$60
    proc-$87
    mem-$114
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