One of the best ways to determine your computing needs is to look at what the best system money can buy will get you. You can then determine what you need and what you don't need and some stuff that you just want. To help you, we put together what we consider to be the best computer system money. We go through each component and tell you why we chose it for our system and offer alternatives as well. There is also a handy calculator that you can use to give yourself an estimate of what your system will run you.

Case -IW-S508-I ATX Mid Tower Case $74.95

CPU - AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz (Thunderbird) $233.99

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-7VTX $199.95

Memory - 256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM 129.95

Hard Drive - Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60 $194.95

CD-ROM/DVD - Acer 16x DVD (DVP1640A) $94.95

CD-RW - TDK veloCD 16x10x40x $259.00

Floppy Drive-ALPS "3.5 1.44 MB $12.95

Video card - Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 Ultra $399.95

Sound card - Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! $69.95

Modem -U.S. Robotics 56K V.90 Performance Pro Modem $81.95

Monitor - ViewSonic GS790 "19 $359.95

Speakers-Altec Lansing - ADA890 $279.95

Power Keyboard and Mouse
Microsoft Internet keyboard and mouse $44.95

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