That depends on what you can salvage. Right now, you're going to be buying a new Video Card and New RAM with pretty much any new system because of the switch to PCI Express and DDR2 RAM, which really limits the savings to not having to buy a new HDD (Cases and optical drives are cheap).
I'd just buy a Dell or HP and drop the old drives into it as extra storage. -Adam P. J. Alling wrote: > All my systems are home built. If you can "salvage" parts from a > previous system you can get twice the performance for half the cost. If > you're starting from scratch what you say may be true. > > John Francis wrote: > >>On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:15:36AM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> >>>Since it's been about 3 years since I bought a new motherboard I'm not >>>up to speed on the latest computer tech (and 6 months is about enough >>>to get lost these days). >>>I'm considering one of the AMD Athlon 64 x2 (dual-core) CPU's, probably >>>the 3500+ or 3800+, and would appreciate any recommendations for >>>motherboards, etc. >>> >> >>Nowadays I don't think it's worthwhile putting your own system >>together unless you want something really out of the mainstream. >>Just let HP (or Dell, or ...) build it for you; it comes with >>a warranty, and might even be cheaper than the cost of all the >>individual components (especially if you want a copy of Windows). >> >> >> > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
