Whats the best system you can build for under 500 dollars

[SpursWoman]

I know how to turn mine on.....

[Useruser666]

I disagree. You pay out the ass for warranty from an OEM vendor when you basically get it for free on every part you buy that's not OEM when you build your own system. The last system I built has a 3-year warranty on every singe major part (CPU/ MB / GPU / RAM / HD / CDRW / SOUND / ETC).

For tech support I've found nothing better than the forum at amdmb.com. No waiting on hold or any crap like that, and the community is really commited to helping AMD users fix their problems and do it quickly.

I have had nothing but succes with Cyberpower. The warranty is for 3 years with 1 year onsite. Since Manny is giving the system as a gift to someone who may not be very computer literate, having the abli y to call someone and have them come out and fix the problem is a definite bonus. Nothing against Manny, but he may not always be availible to come fix it if something goes wrong. Also the warranty is from a single source, instead of coming from individual vendors.

The prices of the warrenties fromCyberpower can't be too expensive since the price for the system I gave is close to the others listed here and that price includes all shipping and a copy of Windows XP.

I usually get a system that consists of only the basic components for the best value. I then add to it by purchasing new parts as they come out and swapping other parts in that I have lying around. It's been pretty economical so far.

[baseline bum]

Wow... I just found out ATI has finally released DRI drivers for XOrg6.8.x... time to move Windows back to the secondary drives and promote my built from source and optimized for athlon Puto-Linux distro back to the good hard drive!

Anyone know a C / C++ compiler for Linux that handles 3DNow! better than gcc and g++ do?

[Useruser666]

I would ask if anyone knows what BB just said, but I actually do!

[baseline bum]

It's big news... I was about to dump my ty GeForce MX-some.bull in my AGP slot instead to get DRI with XOrg-6.8.x, cuz there's no way in I'm building a distro with old-ass XFree86-4.x.

[baseline bum]

.. and gccs supposed to really suck for 3dNow!, so I wanted to find a better compiler to build XOrg and GNOME.

[SequSpur]

Good topic and great information.