Weekly Buyer's Guide: Entry Level System - May 2004
by Evan Lieb on May 15, 2004 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Keyboard and Mouse
While trivial, it's still important that you purchase the right keyboard and mouse. Different people have different preferences for a keyboard's feel and look, and the same goes for a mouse. Therefore, we suggest that you personally try out a keyboard and mouse for yourself. Recommending purchasing these items online is misleading, as there are too many users with different preferences for this type of thing. Visit your nearest PC outlet to try out a keyboard and mouse yourself; a PC Club, Best Buy, CompUSA, or Circuit City store will do. We suggest that you start with Microsoft and Logitech keyboards and mice. Make sure you also check out optical mice from Microsoft and Logitech as well. A good solid optical mouse from either manufacturer should run about $20, but in some cases, can run as little as $10 if you can find the right deal.If you cannot find the lowest prices on the products that we've recommended on this page, it's because we don't list some of them in our RealTime pricing engine. Until we do, we suggest that you do an independent search online at the various vendors' web sites. Just pick and choose where you want to buy your products by looking for a vendor located under the "Vendor" heading.
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jensend - Saturday, May 15, 2004 - link
This statement from the cpu alternative page needs work: "All this adds up to noticeably better performance that, depending on what applications are run, you may or may not notice."The audio page also needs to be changed to say "Recommendation: Onboard audio" rather than "Recommendation: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (6.1) OEM", which it currently says.
GP40X - Saturday, May 15, 2004 - link
Yep, I've been going through withdrawl waiting for the overclocked system. Hope it didn't get lost in the shuffleDismal - Saturday, May 15, 2004 - link
woo, i'm glad these are back.. I was beginning to think they stopped doing them.l3ored - Saturday, May 15, 2004 - link
you skipped the overclocking system...blckgrffn - Saturday, May 15, 2004 - link
Why are we insisting on WD hard drives and Sony opticals? Both have been very unreliable, in my opinion. I really like samsungs for both now. At least none of them have fail so far, and they are much quieter.Other than that, I would upgrade to 512 or at least 384 for ram and call it good! I would also got the Abit motherboard, too, its feature set is worth the $11.
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Grelk - Saturday, May 15, 2004 - link
Why are there repeating pricing lists for the processors but none for the motherboards?DanDeighan - Saturday, May 15, 2004 - link
I think you suggested the wrong budget cooler for the Athlon XP200+. The Cooler Master DP5-5G11A is only rated for Athlon's up to 850Mhz, according to Newegg.