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Personally I have Edifier speakers, they are a few years old but the sound is still great. Not sure what their reputation is like, I didn't buy them myself.
Not sure if its me but I'm pretty sure every link there is broken.
Evaris wrote on 2012-11-06 05:55
Quote from Applejack;976245:
Not sure if its me but I'm pretty sure every link there is broken.
Edited with fixed links and updated for out-of-stock items.
Excalibur wrote on 2012-11-06 18:43
Links work fine, I just checked.
yumri wrote on 2012-12-10 04:52
so the build which came in just under $1,000 not including shipping and handling is as follows:
OS - Windows 7 Pro SP 1 64-bit - OEM
Case - Thermaltake Armor Revo
Power Supply - ENERMAX Platimax EPM600AWT 600W 80 PLUS PLATINUM Certified
Motherboard - ASUS P8Z77-V LK for the Z77 chipset needed
CPU - Intel i5-3550 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo)
RAM - 16GB (2x8GB) Patrot Viper 3 DDR3 1866MHz
Hard drive - Seagate Barracudea 1TB 6.0Gb/s Bare Drive
DVD drive - LITE-ON DVD Burner
extras - 2 Rosewill 10" Serial ATA III wires
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Basically this build will get you top performance for the budget for a higher budget you could get higher performance with more parts to off load stuff from the CPU to expansion cards. It will be using integrated graphics but intel has come a long way and their graphics dont suck anyways mabi doesn't take any real advantage of CUDA nor OpenCL so having a GPU and Graphics RAM is useless if building a computer for mabi and general use. Pretty of room for your music and videos.
To go over the parts now. The OS of Windows 7 x64 is the latest proven to run mabi windows version there is, Thermaltake Armor Revo almost always has enough room for airflow and parts, the power supply is the best i could find with the closest to double the Wattage needed which will give higher efficiency if i understand the power charts correctly, the ASUS P8Z77-V LK basically is a high end systemboard with overclocking in mind usually meaning it can take punishment from excessive use which overclockers and gamers put onto their systems from 24/7 up time, the Intel i5-3770 has a decent graphics chip in it and runs at a higher speed then needed for a couple years thus having very little lag from the CPU, 16GB DDR3 1866 gives you enough room for a RAM disk no pageing file + enough RAM to not run out of it while multi tasking, the 1TB hard drive is just for space, LITE-ON DVD Burner needed to install Windows 7 and if you want to play any CDs and/or DVDs it can read them for you, lastly the 2 SATA cables are because some of the parts might not come with the cables needed so better safe than sorry.