The Athlon 64 3000+, A Budget Gamer's Perspective

VL contributes a link to Viperlair's budget-conscious and game-oriented review of an AMD processor that's not on the bleeding edge, but makes a good showing for the money: "For the price of the Socket-939, you can pick up an A64 3000+, K8T800 based motherboard, and a decent mid-range video card. For gamers on a budget, I think the choice is obvious."

Comments

Poor student eh?

[edunbar93]

Being a poor student on a budget, that doesn't mean I want a substandard CPU for my gaming needs.

(prices are today's, not "as of writing", thanks to newegg.com)
MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R $83
Athlon 64 3000+ (10x200: 2GHz) $175
2 x 512MB Kingston HyperX PC4000 $168 (substituted Kingston 512MB Pc3200)
HIS Radeon 9600 XT $385
80GB Western Digital SE 8MB Cache $59
Windows XP SP1 $0
VIA Hyperion 4in1 drivers 4.51 $0
ATI Catalyst 4.7. $0

Total: $870

Now, while that's not bad - especially for a gamer box - I'm currently working full time and without tuition and I can't spend that much. It's also worth noting that personally, my lack of dedication to school and my unwarranted dedication to Quake were the cause of my dropping out.

This guy is either lying to sell an article, or he needs to have his head screwed on straight and rearrange his priorities. Alternatively he's working for viperlair to work through college and the hardware in question doesn't actually belong to him. Viperlair doesn't seem to make that much money however.