Iconic Bionic My engine bay is Bionic Donating Members 3,726 Member For: 18y 6m 10d Gender: Male Location: Freeways Posted 28/10/08 04:41 AM Share Posted 28/10/08 04:41 AM New PC time, the old 2.0gig is well past retirement. So whats a budget of $2000 going to get me. So far my needs:Intel 3 gig core 2 duo processorSome motherboard to connect it all to1 TB Hard drive SATA II4 gig RamGe-force 9800 GTX 512 graphics card19 " LCD monitorSound card of some sortWindows Vistaand a Tower to hold it allHave I forgotton anything? Where to buy?Mainly for the net, play a few games hold my pics and video collection.Thanks you guru's and I know this forum is full them!I.B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XR2DI4 Member 18 Member For: 16y 25d Posted 28/10/08 05:32 AM Share Posted 28/10/08 05:32 AM (edited) Hey,PC's are really cheap now u can get a monster with $2000.You should look into buying a quad core PC.If you or you know a mate who can put all the parts together for you, you should buy them from MSY everything is really cheap there, or you can get them to make you a PC and select everything you want. TC Edited 28/10/08 05:34 AM by XR2DI4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKa Donating Members 4,243 Member For: 18y 1m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 28/10/08 06:18 AM Share Posted 28/10/08 06:18 AM Im with stupid...You'd get a monster for $2000.. Dunno what your thoughts of ebay are, but a mate of mine got a quad core, 500gig HDD, 4 gig ram, dunno bout video card or sound card, for $1000.. Add a 22" LCD for around $300, sound/video cards and your set... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xr6 typhoon Good for nothing member Donating Members 619 Member For: 20y 3m 5d Location: Sydney Posted 28/10/08 06:41 AM Share Posted 28/10/08 06:41 AM http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=rmp_sg_whirlpoolpcs_boxesbuy from MSY if you have the patience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smicky Go Pies!!! Donating Members 2,852 Member For: 16y 7m 13d Gender: Male Location: Vic Somewhere - Sometimes NSW Posted 28/10/08 06:57 AM Share Posted 28/10/08 06:57 AM (edited) Yo... I.B....Mate PM me and I can work something out for you! I'd shoot you over to our website (online webshop) but its not up just yet... fingers crossed for the weekend!!!oh and as you drive a T ill have to hook you up with a better deal!!!btw- notice to all forum members, friends of forum members and anyone else reading this...MSY is cheap, but doenst always carry local aussie sourced products! So just be careful...Been in the IT industry for 10+ yrs now, and all to often heard sad stories about people buying from MSY... Not to bag any company, they are cheap on a lot of gear not evenything but yes a lot... but... Ill just leave it at that! Edited 28/10/08 06:58 AM by smicky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iconic Bionic My engine bay is Bionic Donating Members 3,726 Member For: 18y 6m 10d Gender: Male Location: Freeways Posted 31/10/08 03:28 AM Author Share Posted 31/10/08 03:28 AM Smicky above got me sorted with ease. Highly reccomended.I.B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 21y 10m 15d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 31/10/08 03:58 AM Share Posted 31/10/08 03:58 AM Smicky's about to get a smacky for advertising.... Forum Rules Commercial PostingsFordXR6Turbo.com is provided to members without charge however, running the site is not free. For this reason, the owner may from time to time enter into a commercial agreement with one or more suppliers of vehicles, products and/or services.Members may discuss products, services or “deals” in the appropriate Sponsors section to provide members with advice or for informational purposes.Members may not have links in their signature to products, services or “deals” offered by any company, business, or other commercial entity unless the member is a sponsor or the member has been given permission from the Moderating Team.Members may post about services and or products that they have seen displayed, advertised or otherwise publicised by or for any company, business, or other commercial entity to provide information or recommendations to members, which may assist or provide benefit in making a decision on a product or service with respect shown to the current donating companies of the site by not spamming the product or service.Feel free to post personal opinion, discuss and/or seek advice regarding any legal product and/or service. However the post must not be to deliberately sell a product and/or service. It must be for technical or product information only.Any posts or links directing members to a non-supporting company, business, or other commercial entity on the basis of soliciting business will be deleted without warning and/or notification. Members who post in this manner will receive a warning.If it is brought to the attention of the Moderating Team that a member is using the FordXR6Turbo.com site to promote a business, sell and/or distribute products deliberately, either on the open forum or through email or private messages (otherwise known as PM’s), the member will be billed one month’s advertising fee per occurrence and a warning will be placed on the members account. The member may also be removed from posting on the site depending on circumstances after an assessment by the Moderating Team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iconic Bionic My engine bay is Bionic Donating Members 3,726 Member For: 18y 6m 10d Gender: Male Location: Freeways Posted 31/10/08 04:09 AM Author Share Posted 31/10/08 04:09 AM How come? Behind the scenes we have conversed but not publically.I.B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 21y 10m 15d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 31/10/08 07:09 AM Share Posted 31/10/08 07:09 AM Mate PM me and I can work something out for you! I'd shoot you over to our website (online webshop) but its not up just yet... fingers crossed for the weekend!!!Advertising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iconic Bionic My engine bay is Bionic Donating Members 3,726 Member For: 18y 6m 10d Gender: Male Location: Freeways Posted 31/10/08 09:13 AM Author Share Posted 31/10/08 09:13 AM Fair enough.I.B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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