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Posted at 8:05 AM on Monday 09/22/08 by
Ben
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HP Home has the HP Pavilion Elite m9300t series Desktop for $850. Configure with Q9300 Quad-Core 2.5GHz, 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9500GS to reach $1020 - $400 off $999 code DT4523 = $620 with free shipping.

  • Core 2 Quad 2.5GHz, 3GB DDR2, 320GB SATA, LightScribe DVD+-RW
  • 15-in-1 memory card reader, ATSC-NTSC TV tuner with PVR, 7.1 channel sound
  • No Monitor, HP keyboard and HP optical mouse, Vista Home Premium
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      dhho1 - Posted 8:36 am PDT 09/22/08 (2173 Posts)  Report Spam

      wow! HP's pricing is very similar to Dell now!

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      8Ball - Posted 11:23 am PDT 09/22/08 (260 Posts)  Report Spam

      Seems so, #1

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      erictred99 - Posted 12:05 pm PDT 09/22/08 (733 Posts)  Report Spam

      i did this with q9450, 4gb ram, 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9500GS. comes to 750, which I felt was a good price point for the features. Runs quite and pretty cool running. Be warned, very small and cramped case, and adding hard drives is a trick to get sata cables plugged in through the maze of wires inside that get USB, Audio and video to the front panel ports. but that is only a minor annoyance.

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      MVR - Posted 8:46 pm PDT 09/22/08 (70 Posts)  Report Spam

      FYI, a simple BSEL mod on this with a Q6600 and it runs at 3.0ghz perfectly stable. This will be my 2nd m9300t. Ordered it as a Home Theater PC for my parents.

      BSEL mod: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=532207 -I used silver conductive paint from the auto parts store (used to fixed back window heat wires). I dipped a 0.5mm tip screw driver in the paint and slowly drew the line between the two pins. Let dry for 1hr, put back in PC and there you go 3.0ghz @ 1333fsb.

      My total came to $650 with the below configuration.

      HP Pavilion Elite m9300t customizable Desktop PC
      Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
      Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Quad processor Q6600 (2.4GHz)
      6GB DDR2-800MHz dual channel SDRAM (2x2048,2x1024)
      FREE UPGRADE! 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300, DVI-I, VGA adapter, HDMI
      320GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
      LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive
      15-in-1 memory card reader, 2 USB, 1394, video, audio
      ATSC-NTSC TV tuner with PVR, FM tuner, remote
      Sound (Integrated 7.1 channel sound w/ front audio ports)
      Microsoft(R) (doesn't) Works 9.0
      Norton Bloated Crappy Internet Security(TM) 2008 - 15 month
      HP wireless keyboard and HP wireless optical mouse

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