I am thinking of building a new computer, and giving my parents my old one. You see, when I got my computer I paid for half of it, and my parents paid for half. I paid $500, they paid $500. So maybe they will give me $500 for my computer which I currently have, and they will keep it and I will build myself a new one. I would then have about $1500 to build a computer with.

My current computer is a dell 4600 with 1gig of ram, 2.8Ghz P4, ATI 9600XT. It will be two years old in June.

As for specs of a new computer, I was thinking a AMD Athlon 64 X2, 1-2gigs of ram, ATI X1800XT. Does that sound like it would be under $1500?

Athlon 64 - 3700 + BOX
ASUS A8W-E
Ati X850XT 256 MB
Seagate 300 GB/7200/8MB
2xDDR2-553 Kingston 512MB
2xLG 4167 DVD RW
Audigy 2 ZS
case - Thermaltake Soprano Silver
power supply - 480W Thermaltake
this all should be around 1490 $

erm, why are you going to spend £850 on a pc, yet you dont even have S2, secondly, that pc is exactly the same spec as mine (well, replace P4 with Athlon), but going that bleeding edge is a tad pointless

Quote from Jakg :

erm, why are you going to spend £850 on a pc, yet you dont even have S2

The price of S2 isnt the reason why I don't have a liscense.

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ @ 2.2ghz | ABIT AT8 | XFX 6800 GS XXX | 1gig 400mhz ram | 240gig HDD space | Coolermaster purepower 550 | Enlight combospy 4 fan controller | Liteon DVD rewriter | Philips CD rewriter | Logitech X230 speakers | Logitech Driving Force Pro

This cost me 2,842.76 USD

Quote from steve30x :

This cost me 2,842.76 USD

How long ago?!

For $1750 you could get a worthy X2 machine, $1600 if you exclude the sexy case. Drop the X2 to a 3700 like suggested and without the case it becomes sub $1500.

It's an AMD 3800 X2, 1gig of Corsair TwinX 3200, Asus AN8, an XFX 256Mb 7900GT XXX (1650/560), 300Gb storage, 480w Enermax PSU, Creative X-Fi & a 16x DVDRW. The sexy case would be a CoolerMaster WaveMaster.

TBH though, If you want AMD, I'd save a few more pennies and wait for AM2 to avoid having to go through a major upgrade again when you upgrade the next time. It's not like your present machine is that slow.

You like copy and pasted your signature...

rofl

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hey
since ur giving away old one
dont look at all the money u gotta put in the tower
1st take away the monitor, kb, mouse, and all that
if u have them already... with 1500 u can build a heck of a PC..
try to go SLI with video card, and a a 64x2