go to pricewatch.com after you find a place you might want to buy from go to
resellerratings.com Look up the rating I'd say a score of 5 or more your good to go.

190 for cheapo but good enough mobo + 2.6ghz cpu 533fsb/ stock fan/hs onboard sound/ nic (with the 533 you'll have the extra fsb to play around with if your into ocing)

56$ for 2mb 80gb hd 79$ for an 8mb cache

however the wd 1600bb (105 bucks) will perform about as well as the 800jb (79)
and you get twice the hardrive space out of it. smaller sectors faster read makes up for the extra buffer.


80 for semi good stick of 512 ram (ram matters more then just about anything else)

5 bucks thermal paste.

100 for gf4 4200 which 99 percent of can be clocked to 4600 speed with stock cooling.

lcd for a semi good one looking at 300-550 really they aren't worth it. They suck for gaming better off spending 200 and getting a rocking crt monitor or reusing your current one.

reuse your current case, floppy, cdrom, keyboard, mouse, you might be able to reuse your psu but more then likly not so like 60 bucks for a semi good one.



my computer I havn't upgraded in over a year. It's still more than fast enough.

19in magview monitor kinda crappy but it does 100hertz at 1024 768 which is what I game at so good enough.

motherboard is an ad77

xp2100 t-bred fsb set at 190 @2471ghz cheapo water cooling 67 dollars on pricewatch and I put a 7200 fan on top the heatsink so its air/water.


512ocz pc3500 running at cas2

geforce 4 4200 core at 280 mem at 610.

800jb 1200jb 400bb I like western digital havn't had one fail yet.

liteon 44x cdr ( no need for faster 3-4 minutes a cd is quick enough)