Why did we buy all the parts ourselves instead of going through a place like Dell? Because Dell and places like it do nothing else but screw people over! If you want to spend over $1,500 on something from Dell that's not even as good as our custom built gaming computer, or really even good enough to run todays video games, be my guest, but we had a $750 limit (for a monitor and a quad core processor, it would have only cost us $900), and here's what we got for that price...
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Motherboard
Intel E4300 Core 2 Duo Processor Overclocked from 1.8Ghz to 3.2Ghz (room for higher overclock speed).
Coolermaster Aquagate Viva Liquid Cooling CPU Heatsink.
2GB of Mushkin DDR2 6400 Ram, Timings 4-5-4-11.
Total of 410GB of Hard drive space (would have been more but I bought the wrong hard drive).
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 3850 (we wanted the 3870, but it was sold out at the time, and now costs lots more).
My beautiful black sleek case with a 250MM fan.
Oh and my cheap $25 printer (in the budget).
We also got a free dell monitor, lol, from Josh (in reality he owed it to us, but don't tell him that).
You know you want to see the rest of the pictures! =)
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I've often thought that, the next time I have to replace my PC, I'll be better off building it myself.
I've more or less put entire PCs together in the past, simply by having to replace bits and pieces of various machines over the years.
My main concern about it would be ensuring that all the parts I got were compatible with each other >_< ... knowing my luck I'd end up with a CPU and RAM that didn't work with the motherboard, or some such nonsense. lol
Also, you mentioned a fan for your case... one fan? Is that enough? o_O
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