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Just putting together an "economical" system for my mother-in-law. Price is a concern, but I would rather pay a little extra and get the best part for the money (best bang for the buck), and this has to be a ROCK-SOLID system, or I'll be there all the time supporting it. I am pretty happy with the following configuration, but I wanted to run it by the THG forum since you have never steered me wrong before. Anyway, here is what I think I am going to get:

VGA ASUS|V9280TD GF4 Ti4200 8X 64M 1 $126.99
CPU P4/2.4BGHz 533M 478PIN/512K RTL 1 $191.00
DDRAM 512M|PC-2700 DDR333 -SAMSUNG% 1 $103.50
HD 40GB|SEAGATE ST340016A % 1 $78.00
MB ASUS P4S533/PA/LAN-UAYZ RET 1 $97.99
FD 1.44MB|ALPS DF354H068F BEIGE OEM 1 $12.00
CD-ROM 52X ASUS CD-S520 RETAIL 1 $28.00
CASE ENERMAX|10BMDATX CS-A102USB RT 1 $54.00

<b> Subtotal $691.48
Tax $.00
Shipping and Handling charge 15.00
<font color=red>Total $706.48 </font color=red></b>

She already has a 20" Hitachi, KB, Mouse and I'll provide the S/W. Her system is mainly intended for Internet and Office. I know I could have saved about $120 by going with a slower CPU, less RAM, and a crappy GPU, but I'd rather get SOLID parts. Anyway, anyone see any problems that I am unwittingly bringing upon myself (or her)? As always, thanks for the advice. For $700, this is a really kick-a$$ system and I am pretty jealous (I hope she remembers this when my bithday rolls around). Thanks again.


-Rick

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Does your mom play Counterstrike or something? Seriously dude, GET REAL! The TI4200 isn't any more stable than a GeForce2 MX! You threw away money, but hey, it's your money!

OK, that's a stable board. You put toether way more system than she needed though. I would have probably gotten something with the Intel GX chipset (integrated Intel graphics, which are super stable) and a slower CPU.

SOLID? LMAO@U over the Ti4200. But it should at least be as stable as it would be with say, a TNT2 M64!

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Crashman,

Yeah, I knew the Ti4200 was a "bit of" overkill, but over the course of 3 years, the additional $80 isn't a big deal. I thought about integrated componenets, and even did get the integrated NIC and Audio, but that was all I could do...the video would have put me over the edge. Plus, she does have me, kids, and grand kids, so the potential is there for some gaming on this system. $700 bucks for a hassle-free, solid, and fast system isn't a big deal. As long as there aren't any known incompatibilities, we'll all be happy. As for my mom-in-law gaming, she would never touch something like CounterStrike.....she's a UT2003 addict :smile: ! Thanks for the input though.

-Rick

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