Wow, thanks guys.
I was considering buying a Dell system, but there's some allure to having a "homebuilt". In terms of pricing, I'd like to keep it around $2,000, but that's negotiable.
I just figured that the days of the $2,000 PC were over and there'd have to be some ways to cut costs. I'm...
I haven't really priced the whole system myself, except for the areas that I thought would cost a lot of money (audio/video cards, DVD/CDRW drives) for the purpose of seeing if I could come up with places to cut some costs. (I priced at Amazon and other major retailers because I didn't know...
I need some help. I'm having a friend of a friend build a computer for me, and he gave me some details on pricing, components, etc.
Here's his suggestion:
Either an AMD Athlon 1700+1.47GHz, or a 1.7Ghz Pentium 4.
Either 512MB Ram with the Intel or 1Gig Ram with the Athlon.
Plextor 16x10x40x...