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To: J.T. who wrote (8138)	7/14/2001 1:47:00 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Respond to of 19219

I originally went into it intending to use a Pentium IV, but a little research quickly convinced me that price/performance-wise Athlons were the way to go. In fact, it was really no contest, the AMD chips just blew them away. I wound up with an Athlon 1.2 Thunderbird, 512 meg of Crucial DDR ram (two 256 meg sticks), a Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard, and an Elsa Gladiac video card. Using my existing monitor and drives (Maxtor 7200 rpm 40 gigs), I spent comfortably less than $1,000, excluding some specialized sound cards for hard disk audio recording that an average user would never need. And all these components (other than the video card) are noticeably cheaper today than they were a month ago when I bought them. Incidentally, I took the opportunity to finally build one myself purely as a learning experience after years of buying them at a seemingly ever-accelerating pace. I’m glad I did, but certainly not everyone has the time to commit (mostly studying what you plan to do beforehand, actually putting it together took only about 45 minutes) or the inclination. Good luck with whatever you decide on.