CD-ROM Panasonic 48x CD-ROM IDE OEM $54.39

CPU AMD Duron 900MHz Socket A OEM $100.44

Case CASE 2000 Mid-Tower Plus ATX Case w/300w $59.84

Fans Thermaltake Volcano 2 AMD Athlon & Duron Fan $29.45

Floppy Panasonic 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive $19.80

Hard Drive Maxtor 40.9GB IDE 5400rpm Ultra DMA $165.39

Keyboard Logitech Win98 Keyboard PS/2 $18.00

Misc. 300 Watts ATX Power Supply - Generic $49.20

Monitor Samsung Samtron 56v 15" .24Hdp 1024x768 $195.80

Motherboard ASUS A7VI-VM AMD VIA KM133 mATX w/A-V-L $178.54
Mouse Logitech First Mouse+ PS/2 w/Scroll (AOpen Logo) $14.70

RAM AzenRAM 256MB PC133 (Lifetime Warranty) $49.72

Sound Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! v2 Value PCI $69.76

Speaker Creative Labs SBS-15 w/2 Speakers $17.40

Video ATI Xpert 2000 w/32MB AGP $79.35


Price Before Tax $1101.78

This is CANADIAN Dollars.
(thats about 700$ USD)


How does that look?
Is any part of it not so great?
(The mouse, monitor, keyboard suck, i know, i have better ones that i would use)


What would you change?
Hows the price?

Thanks
Trevor

For $178.54 you can get a mother board that supports DDR ram pc 1600/2100

Even 178$ Canadian?
Thats about 120$ USD

i dont know ANYTHING about motherboards.
its all rubbish to me

these are my options, that are in my price range
which should i choose

AOpen - AX34 Pro II PC133 ATA 100 4 Dimm 6PCI

AOpen - MX3S PIII Micro ATX I815CS OB- Mod, Net, Vid & Sound

ASUS - A7VL-VM KL133 Value OB Vid/Sou Micro ATX Duron/Tbird

ASUS - CUSL2-C Intel 815CS 5PCI No On Board Video

ASUS - CUV4X -C MicroATX, 5 PCI, 1 AGP 4X, 2 DIMM

ASUS - CUV4X -E ATX Socket 370

ECS - P6SSM SIS630cs On Board Vid/Sou/Mod/ MATX

MSI - K7T Turbo VIA(R)KT133A chipset 200/266 PC133

Tyan - Trinity S400 Via 133 - FC-PGA/S370 & Slot 1 ATX


Id appreciate the input.

Anything else on that system not so great?

For the price it cost, why not get 512MB of ram and a 1ghz cpu?

Aloha
some thoughts
sounds like a great box though no matter what
I would only run Mushkin or Micron memory
if it is home use I would pick up CAS2 non ECC Micron ya can not beat it at its price right now
for server get ECC
if ya go with DDR like Palm said Crucial is still great memory

I only like IBM ide HD have had a lot of different drives ibm seem to be the quietest fastest and most reliable
killer drives
check out
http://www.storagereview.com
http:www.anandtech.com
http://www.tomshardware.com

the big guys for reviews tweaks etc...
there are manymore but a good start
(not sure if ya know these or not so just covering bases)

Asus motherboards are usually good rock solid perfomers