Buyer's Guide: Value Professional 3D - July 2002
by Matthew Witheiler on July 25, 2002 11:59 PM EST- Posted in
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Summary
Value SOHO |
Component |
Price |
CPU
|
AMD
Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) |
$79 |
Motherboard |
MSI
MS-6380E KT3 Ultra |
$65 |
Memory |
512MB
Mushkin PC2700 DDR SDRAM |
$169 |
Video
Card |
GeForce4
Ti 4200 64MB |
$140 |
Monitor |
Cornerstone
C1035 |
$499 |
Case |
Antec
SX630 |
$65 |
Sound
Card |
Integrated
Avance Logic ALC650 |
$0 |
Speakers |
Generic |
$20 |
Ethernet |
Linksys
EtherFast 10/100 |
$20 |
Hard
Drive |
Maxtor
DiamondMax D740X 6L040J2 40GB |
$65 |
Hard
Drive Controller |
Integrated
KT333 |
$0 |
CD-ROM |
Name
brand 40X - 50X CD-ROM |
$30 |
CD-RW |
None |
|
Bottom
line |
|
$1152 |
The value professional 3D system ranks as the most expensive of the three value systems we have ranked in the past three weeks. Thanks to the additional memory and rising memory prices, the larger monitor, and the more powerful video card, the value professional 3D system is $400 more than the value gaming system we looked at last week. Although the price may sound hefty, the value professional 3D system of today is still $113 less expensive than the value professional 3D system we configured a year ago.
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