Custom Built Pc

This post has two purposes, first to see if this system will work once put together, and to show a pretty nice case I found to build my own PowerMac clone.

I found this case while browsing for a case to house my new computer in, thought it was damn close to the PowerMac case, what's everyone's opinion on this? Secondly, this is the first system I am building from scratch, I usually ordered em from Dell. I did quite a bit of research on making sure all components will work and use each other to their full potential while staying under my budget of 1200 dollars, any insight would be appreciated. Any components missing I am taking from my old system as they are fairly new and not performance related.

Motherboard 111.00 Epox EP-8RDA+

Processor 155.00 AMD Athlon XP 2400

RAM 120.00 Kingston 2x256 400MHz DDR PC3200

Monitor 325.00 Syncmaster 957MB 19" Monitor

Video Card 183.00 Gainward GeForce 4 TI 4200

Hard Drive 106.00 Western Digital Caviar Special Edition WD800JB 80GB

Case 139.00

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TOTAL 1139.00

#15639

What case are you speaking of, the picture didn't seem to work. I am quite interested.

#15855

Here's the case again, I uploaded it to my server. As you can see it resembles the PowerMac greatly, and the side panels are an opaque material, so you can almost see through to the inner workings in lieu of a window, I think this looks much more classy. The top two bays are covers for your CD drives, that's a PC card reader included right in the middle front of the case, and the bottom front is a flip down panel that hides the front USB, IEEE, and some other connections.

#15861

The case looks real cool. But, arent you paying too much for your RAM, HD, and Video card? Maybe im just cheap, who knows. What PSU are you gonna use?

#15865

RAM I used a price finder to find the cheapest name brand RAM, it's expensive because it's top of the line RAM for DDR SDRAM 3200. The hard drive has an 8 MB buffer and a fast seek time for gaming and such, video card was a good deal compared to others with similar performance. Case comes with a 330 watt power supply and chassis mounted fan.

#15869

Fry's Electronics, a San Francisco based computer-electronics store (not many branches but physically bigger than CompUSA) uses this case to provide an in-house self-built computer. The case looks to be of very good quality. Check the power supply if it meets your requirements or if it comes with one. But where can you order this case from? and ...What is the name or model of the case?

Thanks

#15877

Ive seen name brand RAM and HDs of that type cheaper, so maybe you should look around a little more.

#15891