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Alright For christmas.

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I've saved up a lil and I thought it would be nice to buy my uncle a computer instead of spending the money on myself :D . Im So generious.

I know he'll play games on it, He likes the quake type series games so Im going to buy Him ut2004.

I don't have alot of money to spend becuase they arent cheap but Im going to try my best, Here are the specs.

# ATX MEDIUM TOWER CASE 350 WATT (BLACK)
# AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Processor (512K L2 CACHE)
# ASUS A7N8X-X nVidia nForce-2 400 FSB 8X AGP w/ USB2.0, LAN, &; AUDIO
# 512 MB (256MBx2) PC2700 333MHz Dual Channel DDR MEMORY
# 80GB 7200 RPM ATA 100 HARD DRIVE
# nVIDIA GeForce-4 MX-4000 64MB AGP
# COMBO DRIVE (16X DVD-ROM & 52x32x52 CD-RW) (BLACK)
# NONE - CDRW
#17 inch CRT Monitor
# 3D WAVE ON-BOARD 5.1 SOUND CARD
# Windows XP
#120 watt speakers
#Logitech Mouse/Keyboard bundle

#Total 700 estimated. *Rounded up if tax is included and shipping thoughts?*


*Note I'll be giving him my old 5700ultra 128mb/128 bit and a *bought copy* of Unreal tournament. And Sonic DVD Burning software.*

I will also be including Microsoft works.

*Yes all the software is legal Purchases*

One other question will this optical drive burn cds?
 
Well kinda wee bit early to be planning for christmass no? Computer parts are always going down, and by November I bet you will have a bigger selection for the same price.
 
it looks pretty good, but if he is going play UT2004, you might want to get a new videocard. anyways theres like 4 more months till decumeber so untill then, you can get one of those amd 64 512kb chips for cheap :)
 
Not enough video card to run UT2K4 really well. Still trying to stay cheap I'd say maybe a radeon 9600 or geforce 4200 ti?
 
Well, first off, I salute you for doing us programmers a favor and actually paying for us to keep making programs for you :D

Since you're giving him your 5700, it all looks good. Like someone else said, wait until at least November, maybe even early December, to order, because prices will inevitably come down. If you're not averse to rebates, you can probably pick up the memory and drives for pretty cheap from a brick-and-mortar, for example on any given week you can get that 80GB drive for $40-$50 after rebates.

And yes, that drive will burn CD's, just won't burn DVD's.
 
You have a cool uncle if he likes to play FPS. I need to get back into my UT2004 mode but Doom 3 has been taking that away from me. :D
 
FYI--

Quake is NOT like UT...
Quake is Quake.
There is NO other games like Quake.
I love Quake.

<3 Thank you for reading my uber poem.

-J.
 
I would get him the Abit NF7-S over the Asus board.

Difference

Abit has Soundstorm Certified audio

and most definately up the vid card.
If you are going to give him a POS 5700, why do you have a Geforce2... I mean Geforce4 MX in the parts list?

And post the prices for each part. We probably know cheaper places to send you to get what you are looking for.
 
The geforce 2 is a 9 dollar differance and he wont be doing much with it. I think it is a great comp for what He'll only be doing with it.
 
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