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Just built New system to replace my old one, just passed old to my 10 year old son.

Old System:

Asus M2N Mobo
AMD 5000+ x2 Black Box (no overclocking)
Thermal take A1 cooler
4GB DDR2 667
Seagate 160 GB SATAII X4 Raid 0+1
ATI X800 256mb PCIe
Toughpower 600w
XP-Pro
Acer 20" WS LCD
Mid tower case

Cost ~$1200 USD in Jan 2007, in Hawaii, including display and OS.

New system:

Asus M2N-SLI
AMD x2 6000+ (No OC...Yet)
ThermalTake A1 CPU cooler
MSI 9600GT OC 512MB X2 - SLI V127
4GB Apacer PC8500 DDR2 800
Hitachi SATA II, 750 GB, 32mb cache X4 RAID 0+1
Enermax 600W-SLI modular PSU
XP-Pro x64
Coolermaster Cosmos RC-1000 case
Hanns-G 281DB LCD display @ 1900X1200 for everything

New system is for gaming, homework, web surfing, home video editing and picture editing and work tasks.

Cost ~ $1800 USD including display and OS. All parts are US spec and english manuals. Bought locally in Taipei at the Bade St computer market piece by piece over 3 days.


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