Building another computer rig to annoy me (~ $1,400-1,500)

[Steve]

---  "Dina Lerret" <bunniqula at ...> wrote:
>
> I've been wanting a dual boot PC with WinXP SP2 (32 or
> 64bit) and Mac OSX for awhile, and with the Intel price
> cuts, I think I'll figuratively bite the bullet.
> 
> My current rig that I built at the beginning of 2006:
> Case	$145	Thermaltake full tower (420w PSU)
> Motherboard	$196	Intel (Socket 775)
> Processor	$239	Intel P4 HT 3.4
> Heatsink	$28	Thermaltake
> RAM	$310	Corsair (2gigs)
> Hard drive	$276	Raptor SATA 150gigs
> Hard drive	$100	SATA 250gigs
> Hard drive	$89	SATA 400gigs
> Hard drive	$89	SATA 400gigs
> Video card	$90	Nvidia
> DVD burner	$42
> Total: $1,604
> 
> I have my eye on:
> Case	$200-250?
> PSU	?	
> Motherboard	$200-210?	Intel
> Processor	$227	Intel E6600 C2D
> Heatsink	?	
> RAM	$129	Corsair (2gigs)
> Hard drive	$175	Raptor SATA 150gigs
> Hard drive	$120	SATA 500gigs
> Hard drive				
> Video card	$125-175?	Nvidia
> DVD burner  ?
> Base Total: $1,268?	
> 
> I'm estimating a budget of $1,400-1,475... ...
> 
> Dina
>

bboyminn:

I'm curious what you are doing that requires this
much computing power. If I interpret correctly 
you have 2G of Ram, 1,200Gig of hard drive space,
and a 3.4Ghz P4 processor. Many of the best systems
available still don't meet these specifications and
you still want more? 

Of course you mention the dual boot Win/Mac, and that
presents it's own issues. But in terms of raw computing
power, your current system doesn't seem to be lacking.

How about a new motherboard and processor, maybe a new
video card, then new OS's. Place that in your current
system and you should be ready to go, and for a lot 
less money.

Just curious.

Steve/bboyminn - who for the records is still using a
900Mhz AMD Athlon with 512Mb and a 60Gb HD.