03-17-2003, 12:25 AM
Amazing coincidence! I just finished building a new PC a couple weeks ago! :D Total price about 600-700 USD. 17" flatscreen monitor, keyboard, optical scroll mouse(all 3 by BenQ), AMD 1800, ABIT MOBO running ATA133, CD-ROM and CD-RW from Sony, 256 Kingston RAM, Tornado GeForce 4 MX, Sound by Creative, and a Prolink Network card. Oh yes, the above price included a router(since I have another PC and a cable connection), so you can probably deduct a bit from that. The casing was dirt-cheap(but does the job well) Most motherboards are relatively idiot-proof, what with having labels on the casing and the motherboard's manual listing which jumper to plug where. As for OS, my dad usually passes me the installation CD from his workplace computers(since I guess the company probably upgraded their systems some years back.) I'm currently UNDER-clocking my 1800 to run at 1700(I had let it run at 1500 previously), in the hopes that this might allow me JUST that little longer running time(before I need to shut it off for longer cooling)