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Re: My wallet hurts :'(
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2004, 01:47:53 PM »
Yeah, that's pretty much why I did it when I made mine.

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Re: My wallet hurts :'(
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2004, 11:20:40 PM »
Yeah, but what's he get for $1,800?  $900's one thing, but almost 2k?  That has to be SOME computer.
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Re: My wallet hurts :'(
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2004, 05:57:04 AM »
Motherboard : A7N8X Deluxe SKT A NForce2 Chipset Motherboard VER: 2.0

CPU : AMD Athlon XP3000 333FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton Retail Boxed Inc Heatsink & Fan with 3year
Warranty

Headset : Manufacturer : PLANTRON
Product : Audio 90 Headset

PSU : Manufacturer : ANTEC
Product : 480PGB True Power Supply

RAM : Manufacturer : CORSAIR
Product : 2x512MB 184DIMM PC3200 NP CL2

GPU : Sapphire ATi Radeon 9800
Atlantis XT 256 MB DDR, DVI,                                      
TV Out Retail Boxed

Case : Coolermaster Wave Master TAC-T01 1

Total : £1005.16
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Re: My wallet hurts :'(
« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2004, 07:15:10 AM »
Athlon 3000+ ?

/me drools

A gig of Corsair?

/me drools some more

Radeon 9800?

/me collapses in pile of own drool.
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Re: My wallet hurts :'(
« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2004, 07:39:00 AM »
actually, EUOL, the price difference between "second best" and something approaching THE best is huge. I was just making numbers up based on the last time I surfed. I'd actually expect the bare minimums to be higher than my guess. Plus, he did get some nicey nicey stuff.