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24th August 2004, 21:47
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 |  You don't have to have a lot of money to have fun. The cheap yet performs rig for under $360 (US). You don't have to have a lot of money to have fun. I was looking around and found my low cost budget rig. X-Dreamer case $35 XP1700+ $52 NF7 V1 $45 Apacer PC2700 512 $64 DVD 16X Lite-on $23 80 GB WD $64 R9000 64MB Non-pro $40 ALX800 $15 4 x 80mm fans $16 Total $354 Refurbished items from Newegg All freight included - Case came with 350Watts PSU - NF-7 refurbished yet came with everything - Apacer memory at eBay - Lite-On refurbished - WD drive refurbished with one year warranty The most I paid for freight came from the damn 80mm fans with LED. CPU could hit 2.2GHz at the expense of more costly memory - been running 10.5x200 with PC2700 There is no such thing as refurbished CPU, Case, Motherboard etc; they are returns from "wrong" purchases. Have fun putting your budget rig together. 
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24th August 2004, 21:49
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 | I wish we had a newegg.be  my cheap rig: noname ATX: 10 XP1800+ : 25 Abit KX7: 30 2x256Mb DDR: 60 40gb HD: 30 Ti4600 (OC'd): 70 12x Plexwriter: 40 SB Live!: 20 all from different forums/ebay/etc
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24th August 2004, 22:02
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| [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002
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| Damn social security raising our tax.  My cheap linux server: XP1700+ Tbred 'b' @2600+: 40 Chaintech NF2: 40 512MB PC3200 V-DATA: 62 GF4 MX 440: 25 Seagate 8mb 200GB: 105 No-name 400W PSU: 20 40/20/12x CDRW: 20
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24th August 2004, 22:10
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| my system is the best for gaming 
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24th August 2004, 22:12
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| Hey, if we list ways to build a budget semi-gaming rig, we could attract more people in "computing". Reason I started the thread was when I found out PolarFLO offers buy back/trade ins. The water blocks they get from trade ins turn on at eBay. However, the kick is this; that many large resellers would have returns no matter how well they run the business - it would be like the "outlet stores" selling returns at 50% off of retail price on current products. One email to their customer service department requesting inventory update of return goods may do you some good in hunting for bargain parts to build your new rig.
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24th August 2004, 22:14
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| My bargain beauty, sorry if this goes offtopic  got a second Ti4600 tucked away in an AXP testbed also atm :grin:
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24th August 2004, 22:23
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| my budget setup: Aopen all on board mobo, celeron 600, seagate 120 gig, nec 2500A
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24th August 2004, 22:26
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| My cheap rig: Some digital mobo with some Intel chipset 700Mb hdd I had (now 2*3Gb hdd for linux, but the damned boot loader doesn't work, gonna have to install it again, 3th time :@ ) 4x or 8x cd-rom (now 32x for linux) AMD K6-II @365 Matrox IR-Storm II Cost: $0 |
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| cheap rig : __________ AMD DURON 850 : 0 Soltek mobo : 0 TNT2: 0 64 DDRAM : 0 HD 40GB : 20 Case + 250W :0 = 20 3rd cheap rig ______________ AMD XP 2400+ + slk7 : 60 EPOX 8rda+ : 0 Twinmoss 2*256DDRAM PC3200(new) : 65 2*80GB Maxtor (8mb) (new): 140 Radeon 9600Pro (new) : 128 DVDR NEC 2510A(new) : 79 CDR Aopen 52X : 0 = 472 (half new pc)
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