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Posted by Nick Chambers on 25, 2001 at 3:02 AM:

In Reply to: What would be the best parts to buy to make a complete mame computer? posted by CthulhuLuke on 25, 2001 at 2:02 AM:

Well, ot is really tough to make suggestions when we don't know what your budget is, but I just upgraded so here's what I did on a few of the parts.

An athlon XP 1700+ 1.47 ghz cpu and epox 8KHA+ mb. I can't say enough about the speed of the new Athlon XPs, they are faster and cheaper than the Pentium 4s. This thing, is FAST. I paid $150 for the CPU (OEM) and $105 for the MB. Be careful though, the new processors run really hot and you have to use a good fast CPU fan which equals LOUD. I got the MB CPU and fan and a case from www.newegg.com which has pretty good prices and is a well established company. They also have a burner that i just bought for my brother for Christmas. the Lite-on 24x10x40x. Blazing fast burning at 24x. It's only 80 bucks and has received really great reviews. I burned a couple of cds already, under 10 minutes for a full cd. It is also a 40x cd so you wouldn't really need another cd player except if you want to do cd to cd, but that isn't necessary. The Epox board taked pc2100 ddr ram which I got at www.crucial.com. Best memory quality and price and free 2nd day shipping.

Can't think of anything else, bye

-Nick


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