N00bish REQ: New PC Specs

Arju

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Going to build a new PC soon... bought my AMD 1.4ghz way back in 2001.

Now Shuttle SPC or mATX?

Canadian greenback from www.canadacomputers.com. Decent prices and soso bilingual service :p

mATX
Antec Aria MicroATX Cube Case w/ 300W $149
ASUS P4P800-VM Intel 865G, 800MHz FSB, Dual DDR400 $129
KingMax 512MB PC-4000 DDR500 SDRAM $155
Pentium 4 2.8C GHz 512KB cache RETAIL BOX $253
ATI RADEON™ 9800 Pro 128MB DDR AGP 8X $328

Total: $1014
Total w/ tax: $1166.10

Shuttle

Shuttle SB75G2 V2 $519
KingMax 512MB PC-4000 DDR500 SDRAM $155
Pentium 4 2.8C GHz 512KB cache RETAIL BOX $253
ATI RADEON™ 9800 Pro 128MB DDR AGP 8X $328

Total: $1255
Total w/ tax: $1443.25

Not sure whether to buy another HDD... definately going to get a DVD-R soon. I have a DVDROM drive, 32x burner and two Maxtor HDDs in my current PC. I'll be splittign these up somehow between both PCs. Hopefully my AMD can serve as a faithful MIRC/Download/MP3 Server.
 
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