Cost-effective, Yet Tasty Hardware?

[Sim9]

Anyone know any good, cost-effective hardware? Ideally it should be able to process games decently. Budget for CPU, Motherboard, Ram, and Possible Videocard in this project is $700 max.

Thanks go to Zips for his list, it has been very helpful :D If anyone else has suggestions, please let me know :)

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Originally posted by Sim9@Jul 28 2003, 11:12 AM
Anyone know any good, cost-effective hardware? Ideally it should be able to process games decently. Budget for CPU, Motherboard, Ram, and Possible Videocard in this project is $700 max.

Thanks go to Zips for his list, it has been very helpful :D If anyone else has suggestions, please let me know :)
Well my total came to $628 for everything listed at http://zips.gaming-hell.com/Config.htm so that might be worth checking into Sim.

Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
512 MB PC2700 RAM (From crucial)
9200 Radeon 128MB Vid Card
80 GB HDD (7200 RPM, Retail, 8MB Cache, Nero Burning ROM software)
K7N2 DeltaL MoBo w/nForce2 (Sexy 3 gigs of RAM you can have, 5 PCI, 1 8X AGP, up to a 3000+ XP Athlon or higher) *drool*
Sexy silver mid-tower case with room for 5 additonal fans in addition to the one included onthe side w/ 350 watt PS ( http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp?im...-156-104-09.JPG (http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp?image=11-156-104-01.JPG/11-156-104-03.JPG/11-156-104-05.JPG/11-156-104-06.JPG/11-156-104-08.JPG/11-156-104-07.JPG/11-156-104-09.JPG) )

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Thanks Zips :D