sonnymoore

G'day All.
I Am Looking Into Making An Old Computer I Have Better And I Went To A Local Computer Store And They Have This DIY Upgrade Package:

XP2500+ AMD CPU & Fan
MSI Mainboard 8x AGP
256mb PC3200 DDR Ram

For $395 AUD - Which Equals $298 USD

Is This Good Value And Is The CPU And Mainboard Good? Or Crap? I Know Nothing About AMD I Know The Ram Amount Is Crap But I Would Get More Of That Seperatley.

So What Do You Think?

Waste Of Money?

Or Good Value?

Cheers.

[-0MEGA-]

Its not a good deal, you can get an AMD Sempron 2800+ for $80, 8x AGP Mobo S.754 for $50, and 512MB PC3200 RAM for $35. Which comes to a total of $165, and those parts are new and better then the ones you posted above.

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sonnymoore

Ok, Thank You Very Much For That Info. Cheers

ceewi1

I agree, it's FAR to expensive, and the components are outdated anyway.

Try www.staticice.com.au, it's a site which lists the best prices of computer components in Australia.

If you post your budget and purpose here, i'm sure there will be people willing to set you on the right track.

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sonnymoore

thanks for the link ceewi1 im from tassie...i will check out that site...and post a rough idea of what im after

davie23223

This looks like a good deal

AMD Athlon XP 2800+ CPU
256MB DDR333 PC2700 Memory (Upgrade to 512 for $20 CDN)
ECS KM400-2 Mother Board
Brand Named 40GB 7200RPM 2MB Cache
Sony 52x CD ROM (Upgrade to DVD RW for $27 CDN)
Deluxe ATX Case
400 Watt Power Supply

Works out to be $222 U.S.

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40GB 7200RPM HD | 80GB 7200RPM HD | 100GB 5400RPM HD
ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 128mb | nVidia XFX 7200 GS 512mb | Intel GMA 950 128MB (Shared)

ceewi1

Well, it's cheap, and would be great for Office and Internet use, but it certainly wouldn't work with any of the latest games.

Also, the postage cost to Australia might be more than it's worth. Can't really say whether or not it would suit until we get some idea of the budget and purpose.

Also, are you looking for an entire PC, since your initial post was referring to an upgrade kit of just a mobo, CPU and RAM.

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sonnymoore

What I Have Is:

A Case
Power Supply
1 CD Burner
1 DVD Burner
1 40gb HDD
1 Floppy Drive
1 Sound Card

So I Think I Just Need

MotherBoard
CPU
Ram
Video Card

My Friend Told Me TOday Thats Pretty Much All I Need

[-0MEGA-]

And those are generally the most expensive parts of a computer.

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Desktop // Laptop
Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0GHz // Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz
Asus Rampage Formula X48 // Intel PM45
ATI 4870X2 2GB GDDR5 // 512MB GDDR3 9800M GTS
4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 940 // 4GB DDR3 800
750GB SATAII w/32MB // 200GB SATAII 7200RPM
Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty
SilverStone 750W +12V@60A
3DMark06: 21391 // 9179

ceewi1

We still need to know your budget and what you intend to use the computer for.

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