New Computer

[Raven]

Hello everyone http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif I have been shopping around the internet looking for a computer. I think I have found one at ABS. Has anyone every bought from them? It seems like whenever I find something, I check the company out at resellers and nobody has anything good to say about anybody on there. Here is the one I'm thinking about getting:

AMD Athlon XP Processor 1800+ (1.53GHz) with QuantiSpeed(TM) architecture
+70
Gigabyte VIA KT266A GA-7VTXE Motherboard
+20
256MB DDR SDRAM PC2100
Standard
40GB IBM 7200RPM ATA100 HD
+25
A-Open 52X CD-ROM
Standard


64MB ATI Radeon 7200 SDR AGP
Standard


Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
Standard
Altec Lansing AVS500 Speakers w/Subwoofer
Standard
Zoom PCI 56K V.92 Modem
Standard
1.44MB Floppy Drive
Standard
Microsoft IntelliMouse
Standard
Microsoft Internet Keyboard w/o Handrest (No NT Support)
Standard
Windows XP Home Edition
Standard
In-Win ATX Mid Tower 300Watts Case
Standard
3 Years Limited Warranty

Price is 849.00
Good deal or bad deal?
Thanks

[YODA74]

Can't say anything about who your buying it from But that is one hell of a system for the money Athlon rocks and Gigabyte excellent,DDR mem good system. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[rond36]

Raven Welcome to the PC guide Forums
I was just wondering are you buying your monitor separate or reusing your old one
Other than that it looks like a great system at a great price even without a monitor.

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[pentachris]

Well, they are a Better Business Bureau member. Check out the report on them here (http://www.labbb.org/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/C%3A/Inetpub/wwwroot/SouthlandReport/default.htm?hCompID=92002302&hAKAID=1&hAddrID=5).

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If my computer were the eighth dwarf, it would be Dumpy.
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[Raven]

Thanks for the welcome http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif
That price is without the monitor. I haven't decided if I'm going to get a new monitor now or not. I do want one, the one I have right now is a 4yr old IBM 15in. Small by the ones I see out today.

Second question...How hard will it be to do a dual boot. It comes with winXP and I want to put win98SE on it also.
Thanks!