I'm just curious and taking a little poll on your computer specs. I just bought a gateway which should ship sometime this up coming week and can't wait for it to come in so I can actually play some current games on it.

I configured this computer on gateway's site then went to the gateway store and purchased it:

P4 2.4GHz
120GB HD
128MB nVidia GF4 MX
256MB DDR RAM (will upgrade to 512 right away)

I bought it with a 17" flat panel monitor and a free printer came with it.

The total price was $1,379. I think I got a pretty good deal if comparing to Dell, etc. One thing I love is gateway's online support center.

Dan

Wow, yea that is a pretty good deal. I'm currently running on a system I bought back in November of 2000. Although coming this January I will be building a new system. But I must say, for those specs that is a really good price. That's basically a top-of-the-line PC, and mine when I bought it costed around 2700. Good deal!

Just built my own:

AMD XP 2100
512MB RAM
80GB HDD
64MB Graphics Card (128MB was out of stock, but I don't really need it)

I think it came to about £600, which in my mind was a sweet deal. Its got top of the range motherboards, brushed aluminium case (mmmmmm http://www.coolermaster.nl/pruducts/case/atc/atc710_c.htm)

I'm a very happy chappy! :)

/pruducts/
I hope thats not their main website.

/pruducts/
I hope thats not their main website.

.nl --> Its their dutch website :)

Yes,
but other links on the site point to /products/

I just ordered a Dell the other day. It is now in shipping!

Dell Dimension 8250 Series:

Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.40GHz with 533MHz
Memory: 512MB PC1066 RDRAM
Keyboard: Dell® Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard
Monitors: 17 in (16.0 in viewable,.27dp) E772 Monitor
Video Cards: 64MB DDR NVIDIA_ GeForce4 MX™ Graphics Card with TV-Out
Hard Drives: 60GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive
Floppy Drive: 3.5 in Floppy Drive
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
Mouse: Logitech® Optical USB Mouse
Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet
Modem: 56K Telephony Modem for Windows
CD Drive: 48x Max Variable CD-ROM
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital Sound Card
Speakers: Harman Kardon® HK-395 Speakers with Subwoofer
Digital Music: Dell Jukebox powered by MusicMatch
Digital Photography: Dell Picture Studio,Image Expert Standard
Video Editing: Dell Movie Studio Plus
Secondary Drive: 4x DVD+RW/+R Drive w/CD-RW

Price: $1,498.00 :eek: Delievered to my door. :D

Forgot... Enjoy your new Gateway!

Thanks, I'm sure I will. Btw, shipping and tax was an additional $190, though. :rolleyes:

Mine:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz)
Asus A7N266-VM motherboard (soon to be replaced)
512MB PC266 DDR
30GB hard drive
nVidia GeForce2 MX 32MB
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Plextor 40x12x40
DVD drive

I have absolutely no idea what it would cost. I got the CPU, motherboard, and memory for free, and the rest (except the cd writer) is like 2 years old :P

Dell 1.3 GHZ
256 Megs of RDRam (Just got the other 128 off ebay for 40 bucks)
GeForce 2 GTS Pro 64 megs of Ram (Got that off ebay too)
Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 64v
20 Gig IDE Hard Drive (I'm looking for a 10 gig SCSI)
Samsung DVD Drive 8x (I think)
Burner is a 12x writeable.

And my other computer that I got a couple of weeks ago (used) is a;
833MHZ Pentium 3
128 Megs of SDRam
27 Gig IDE Hard Drive
GeForce 2 MX 32 megs of Ram
32x CD Reader, 4x DVD
and I'm unsure of the soundcard.

Athlon 2000+
1.67 gig
80 gig hard drive
512DDR Ram
CD-RW
DVD Player

im updating my hard drive to 120, and thinking about trying to up the Ram

Hey,
I don't mean to be a thread-jacker, but could anyone point me in the direction of a website that lists up-and-coming releases of computer products/hardware?

Tosbiba Laptop
1GHz Celeron
256MB RAM
15GB Harddrive

I desperatley need a new machine, but laptop prices haven't budged from 3 years ago, much unlike all the new desktops everone has purchased :(.

Just built one about 2 weeks ago.

P4 2.4
1 GIG DDR PC2700 Ram
Ge-force 4 MX 420 ( I don't game much )
2 x WD 80 GIG HD 7200 RPM w/ 8 MB Cache
Chieftec Case
Flat Panel Display
Asus P4PE Motherboard
16X DVD
48X CDRW


Rob

Just got a second system to play with this week:

Case that is plain cream (looks nice though) but has plenty of room for expansion and a nice rail system for mounting hardware
MSI motherboard with RAID
1300 mhz Duron
512 MB DDR RAM
DVD drive
Soundblaster Live Player 5.1
Geforce 4 440MX with 64 MB of DDR
Floppy drive (naturally)
Good coolermaster CPU cooler
$730 including taxes from the PC shop 5 minutes away on foot. Far better service than any of those online stores. If anything stops working, I just gotta rip it out and the replacement is 5 minutes away (during opening hours, of course). This system included a free 'Power on' button and a 50% discount on the reset button :blush:

2 x 80 GIG Western Digital 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE drives
$145 each, going in to striping RAID.
Got them online as one thing that computer shop clearly overcharges on is harddrives, they were close to $200 in the shop.

Netgear Platinum series 5 port switch to build a nice little network with my new PC, my current PC (an XP 1800+ system with about 350 GIGS worth of harddrives in it :stickout: ) and my laptop.
$56 including shipping and taxes.

Could have gotten a Dell or whatever for a few dollars more, only they only seemed to have intel based systems. For that price it would have been a Celeron 1700 mhz with SDram.

P.S. I live in the Netherlands, so hardware prices are generally a tiny bit higher than in the USA, unfortunatly.

P4 2.53GHZ
1 GIG DDR
GEFORCE 4 128MB
2 X 80 GIG
48 X burner
SBLP w/4 speaker support

19" true flat NEC

P4 1.6Ghz
128MB DDR RAM
Geforce 2 MX 400
WDC 40GB 7200rpm
Lite-On 48x/10x/24x CDRW
Cornea 17" Flat Panel

AMD T-bird 1GHz
128MB RAM
Savage2000 64MB Vid Card
Fujitsu 40GB 5400rpm HD
16x10x40 CDRW
DVD Rom
Hansol 15" Monitor