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PC for under $1000

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Chaballaman

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Do you think this would be good for $1000 budget PC? was going to get Antec SuperLanboy after bad overheating experience with Aopen HQ45 but decide to for SFF.
(price from newegg)
AMD Mobile Athlon XP2500+ 88.00
Shuttle FN45 0.00
2x 512MB Corsair XMS3200 276.00
128MB Powercolor Radeon 9800Pro 219.00
120GB Seagate B7200.7 8MB ATA 94.00
Liteon 48/24/48/16 CDRW/DVD 43.50
1.44MB Sony Floppy 10.99
Shuttle SN45G Mini 230.00
MS Multimedia Keyboard, Optical Mouse 28.00
Total 989.49
and plus 17" Samsung 172X for $549, total of $1538.49.
 
Everything looks pretty good, except that I'd steer clear of the Powercolor video card. I currently have the Powercolor 9700 Pro "Evil Commando 2" (RC397) and the performance is not what I thought it would be. I have pretty good system specifications and my 3D Mark '03 scores aren't that great, being only in the 3,700 range and that's when it's overclocked using Rage 3d Tweak. My friend's ATI 9700 Pro A-I-W performs close to 4,800 and our systems are almost identical.

Personally, I'd think about investing in the Sapphire 9800 Pro. It's a "Built by ATI" card and I trust it way more than Powercolor. That's just my two cents though.

Dark Assassin
 
Looks like a winner to me, but yeah I would opt for a Sapphire as well for the vid card.
 
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