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The Familiar
While a thousand dollars really isn't a lot when you're talking about buying a new system, a thousand dollars is quite a bit of cash in the "grand" scheme of things. We decided that for $1000 we could offer the latest technology from the industry's top manufacturers.

Into a budgt, the familiar packs an Athlon XP 2400+, 512MB of dual channel DDR333 memory, an ASUS motherboard, a Western Digital hard drive with a speed-inducing 8MB cache, an LG 52x CD burner, and (finally!) integrated graphics that don't suck.

 
Design considerations
Performance Upgradeability Price
Case
 
313z OEM case
CPU
AMD
 Athlon XP 2400+
Memory
512MB DDR333
Dual Channel
Hard drive
Western Digital 60Gb
7200rpm, 8MB
Optical
LG 52x24x52
CD burner
Input
Logitech
Access Keyboard  &
Optical mouse

  • Performance parts... AMD Athlon XP 2400+, Dual channel DDR333
  • ASUS A7N8X-VM motherboard
  • LG 52x CD burner
  • Onboard GeForce4 MX GPU
  • Onboard USB2.0, LAN, 6-channel audio
  • Open 8x AGP slot (adding an AGP card means you get DDR400 RAM, too!)
  • 3 PCI slots for expansion cards
  • Four 5.25" bays for optical drives and three 3.25" bays for floppies and hard drives
  • Windows XP Home

    

 
  $959
Upgrades available