IBUYPOWER Price Quote

[illuminate100]

For those of you who are PC junkies, I just thought you might be interested to see what approx. a grand can get you these days. After I priced this system out, I thought about what a grand could get you say even just a year ago and it's amazing how fast tech marches along. I plan on buying this system, or one similar, near the end of '06 and I imagine
I'll only pay about $850.

AMD Athlon-64 X2 DDR400 PCI-Express $1,157.00


Case ( Raidmax 268 ATX Mid-Tower Case w/350W Power Supply Silver )


Case Lighting ( Neon Light Blue )

Power Supply ( ** iBUYPOWER Recommended ** NZXT PF-500 500 Watt Power Supply )

Processor ( [939-pin] AMD® Athlon-64 X2 3800+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology )(dual core)

Processor Cooling ( Certified CPU Fan and Heatsink )

Motherboard ( eVGA nForce-4 SLI Chipset Dual DDR w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, Dual PCI-E MB )

Memory ( 1024 MB [512MB X2] DDR-400 PC3200 Memory Module Corsair-Value or Major Brand )

Video Card ( [PCI-Express 16x] Nvidia Geforce 6600GT 128MB w/DVI + TV Out Video )

Hard Drive ( 120 GB HARD DRIVES [S-ATA] Seagate 120 GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Hard Drive )

2nd Hard Drive ( 120 GB HARD DRIVES [S-ATA] Seagate 120 GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Hard Drive )

Raid Controller ( Highpoint Rocket Raid Controller PCI Card -- Must select 2 same size Hard Drives )

Raid Configuration ( Raid-0 [Data Striping] With 2X Hard Drives )

CD/DVD Drive ( None )
CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive ( 16x DVD-ROM + 52x32x52 CD-RW Combo Drive Silver )

Sound Card ( 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard )

Speaker System ( 600W PMPO 3 PCS Super Bass Subwoofer Speaker System )

Fax Modem ( None )

Network Card ( Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) )

Floppy Drive ( Mitsumi 1.44 MB Internal Floppy Drive Beige )

Monitor ( None )

Keyboard ( PS/2 104 Key Windows 98 Keyboard Beige )

Mouse ( Microsoft IntelliMouse 1.1A USB Internet Mouse Beige )

USB 2.0 Accessories ( Build-in USB 2.0 Ports )

Warranty ( Warranty Service Standard 3-Year Limited Warranty )

Ship Out in 5~10 Business Days )

[epsylum]

I have an Ibuypower. I love it. I would gladly buy another from them. They are one of the few places that will let you get just a preformatted HD and save you the expense of buying another copy of windows or let you load it with Linux, etc.

Good computers at a great prices. They also always score well in comparisions in computer mags.

[hwyhobo]

Originally posted by illuminate100
I plan on buying this system [...]
illuminate100, that is a sweet system. With a system like that, how much more would it cost to do Raid 5 instead of Raid 0?

Oh, are you going to assemble it yourself, or have it assembled and shipped to you?

[illuminate100]

I think they ship it already put together, but hey, I am glad you asked about the RAID thing because honestly I don't know the difference. I know a "RAID" config means that you have two or more hard drives and somehow RAID has to do with how they're managed, but what is the difference between different kinds of RAID configuratons??

Thanks.