Purchasing a computer help...

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i would say these are avg prices for what you can get online.

3.2 gig 279 (you can get a 3 gig for 208)
MB with sound nic, firewire about 110
1 gig ram(2x 512) 160
case with ps ~50
9600xt 140
250gig 150
52x cdrw 30
dvdrw 70

989 or 918

of course thats no monitor and building it yourself.

honestly thats better hardware than a prebuilt and gonna cost less. I still think you should do it yourself, i can find some tutorials online that you can try to look at, its really,really easy. just plug some crap in where it goes, put in a windows disc and follow the instructions on screen, then install a couple drivers and thats it. You just need to get an os and thats easy enough/

otherwise, I would say either hold out for a decent dell deal, or just go for it and forget costs.

the closest dell you can get in specs. (still worse in most areas) is

ell Dimension 4600 Series Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology (3.20GHz, 800 FSB) WPB328B [221-4140] 1
Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional WPXP [420-1922][313-7222][412-0409][412-0688][463-2282] 11
Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHz (2x512M) 1GB4 [311-9004] 3
Keyboard Dell® Quietkey® Keyboard QK [310-1582] 4
Monitor No Monitor N [320-3000] 5
Video Card 128MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI 128FX52 [320-0735][320-2575] 6
Hard Drive 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) 250S [340-9731] 8
Floppy Drive and Additional Storage Devices No Floppy Drive Included NFD [340-8688] 10
Mouse Dell® 2-button scroll mouse SM [310-1871] 12
Network Card Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet IN [430-0412] 13
Modem No Modem Requested N [313-3607] 14
CD or DVD Drive Dual Drives: 8x DVD+RW Drive + 48x CD-ROM Drive CD8DVR [313-2609][313-2219][462-7812][430-0945] 16
Sound Integrated 5.1 Channel Audio IS [313-2758] 17
Speakers No Speaker Option N [313-4514] 18
Standard Plan ($55 Mail in Rebate) BSP2Y1S [950-1230][950-1231][412-0360][461-3749][970-9158][980-9497] 29
Video Editing IEEE 1394 Adapter 1394 [320-0169] 85


TOTAL: $1,288.00