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Basic AMD
| Part
| Model
| Price
| Case
|
| CPU
| AMD Sempron LE-1100 | 38
|
|
| Motherboard
| Abit NF-M2SV | 51
|
| RAM
| 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 | 19
|
| Hard Drive
| 160GB Samsung SATA HDD | 47
|
| Optical Drive
| LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW | 27
|
| Graphics Card
| Onboard from motherboard | -
|
| Sound Card
| Onboard from motherboard | -
|
| Case
| Asus TA-881 | 59
|
| Power Supply
| Included with Case | -
|
| Cooling
| - | -
|
| Additional
| - | -
|
| Total Cost
| - | 240 + Postage
|
Some people are on a limited budget, and want a nice basic desktop for Internet use and the like. This machine should be fine for basic tasks. This system, a cheap keyboard/mouse, a copy of Vista Basic or XP Home and a secondhand 17" CRT would provide a nice basic machine for about $400.
Basic Intel
| Part
| Model
| Price
| Case
|
| CPU
| Intel Celeron 420 | 39
|
|
| Motherboard
| Asus P5S-MX-SE | 55
|
| RAM
| 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 | 24
|
| Hard Drive
| 160GB Samsung SATA HDD | 45
|
| Optical Drive
| LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW | 29
|
| Graphics Card
| Onboard from motherboard | -
|
| Sound Card
| Onboard from motherboard | -
|
| Case
| Asus TA-881 | 59
|
| Power Supply
| Included with Case | -
|
| Cooling
| - | -
|
| Additional
| - | -
|
| Total Cost
| - | 251 + Postage
|
Here is an Intel version of the workstation, for those who prefer Intel's products.
$500 AMD
| Part
| Model
| Price
| Case
|
| CPU
| AMD Phenom X3 8450 | 142
|
|
| Motherboard
| Abit AN-M2 | 69
|
| RAM
| 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 | 45
|
| Hard Drive
| 250GB Samsung SP2504C | 59
|
| Optical Drive
| LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW | 29
|
| Graphics Card
| Onboard from motherboard | -
|
| Sound Card
| Onboard from motherboard | -
|
| Case
| Asus TA-881 | 59
|
| Power Supply
| Included with Case | -
|
| Cooling
| - | -
|
| Additional
| - | -
|
| Total Cost
| - | 403 + Postage
|
This is a fairly good base system. The case isn't too bad, its cheap but not sore on the eyes.
$500 Intel
$750 Intel
With a quad core CPU and 4GB of RAM, this machine is a lightning fast workstation.
This machine can handle some serious numbercrunching. Could easily be upgraded with a discrete video card (such as those found in the following recommendations) to be a very good CAD machine. This machine would be very adequate for research purposes, where numbercrunching power is the key.
$1000 Intel, CAD Machine
$1500 Intel, CAD Machine
