From: Randall Parker 

Rich,

Reasonable: Take the difference in price for an AMD X2 processor versus non-X2 at
same speed and I would expect to pay what Dell/HP/etc charge for a regular PC plus
the price difference I see for regular AMD versus AMD X2 processors on Pricewatch.

For example, Pricewatch:
   http://www.pricewatch.com/cpu/
  shows the Athlon 64 x2 3800 dual core at $296 as compared to the Athlon 64
3800 at
$284.

In other words: I want to pay what the biggies would charge if they were selling the
sort of computer I'm looking for. Similarly, the additional cost for a motherboard
that can take 4 gigs isn't much more (in tens of dollars) as compared to one that can
take 2 gigs of RAM.



Rich wrote:
>    How do you define reasonable price?
>
>    What do you expect for disk storage, removable media, etc?
>
> Rich
>
>
>     "Randall Parker"
>          <mailto:obfuscate_techieSPAMpundit_now{at}STOPfutureSPAMpundit_with_bold_stu
ff.comNOW>>
>     wrote in message news:444a7204$1{at}w3....
>     I was cruising thru Dell's and HP's sites and found many PCs that
>     did not come with
>     dual core options. HP had one offering that included AMD X2 CPU
>     options for example.
>
>     Also, lots of them maxed out at 2 gigs RAM.
>
>     So short of building one's own box from scratch (which strikes me as
>     much more time
>     consuming and expensive as well) how can one get a dual core desktop
>     PC with more
>     than 2 gigs RAM at a reasonable price?
>
>     I also want a video card that'll drive two flat panel displays.

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