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Revision as of 21:29, 18 July 2009
Contents |
Basic AMD
| Part | Model | Price | Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Sempron LE-1250 | 28 |  |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte M61PME-S2P | 66 | |
| RAM | 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 | 19 | |
| Hard Drive | 160GB Samsung SATA HDD | 50 | |
| 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 | - | 248 + 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 | [Coolermaster Elite 334 ] | - 80 | |
| Power Supply | Included with Case | - | |
| Cooling | - | - | |
| Additional | - | - | |
| Total Cost | - | 424 + Postage |
This is a fairly good base system. The case isn't too bad, its cheap but not sore on the eyes.
$500 Intel
| Part | Model | Price | Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 | 143 | |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte G31M-S2L | 59 | |
| 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 | - | 392 + Postage |
$750 Intel
| Part | Model | Price | Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 | 215 |  |
| Motherboard | Intel DG33BU | 111 | |
| RAM | 4GB Corsair DDR2-667 | 100 | |
| 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 | Antec SLK1650B | 88 | |
| Power Supply | Included With Case | - | |
| Cooling | - | - | |
| Additional | - | - | |
| Total Cost | - | 602 + Postage |
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
| Part | Model | Price | Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 | 215 | |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte P35-DS3L | 99 | |
| RAM | 4GB Corsair DDR2-667 | 100 | |
| Hard Drive | 250GB Samsung SP2504C | 59 | |
| Optical Drive | LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW | 29 | |
| Graphics Card | nVidia Quadro FX 560 | 335 | |
| Sound Card | Onboard from motherboard | - | |
| Case | Antec SLK1650B | 88 | |
| Power Supply | Included With Case | - | |
| Cooling | - | - | |
| Additional | - | - | |
| Total Cost | - | 915 + Postage |
$1500 Intel, CAD Machine
| Part | Model | Price | Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 | 215 | |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte P35-DS3L | 99 | |
| RAM | 4GB Corsair DDR2-667 | 100 | |
| Hard Drive | 250GB Samsung SP2504C | 59 | |
| Optical Drive | LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW | 29 | |
| Graphics Card | nVidia Quadro FX 1500 | 688 | |
| Sound Card | Onboard from motherboard | - | |
| Case | Antec SLK1650B | 88 | |
| Power Supply | Included With Case | - | |
| Cooling | - | - | |
| Additional | - | - | |
| Total Cost | - | 1278 + Postage |