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$300 AMD

Part Model Price Case
CPU AMD Sempron 3200+ 38
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Gigabyte M61SME-S2 58
RAM 1GB Corsair DDR2-667 kit 35
Hard Drive 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax SATA HDD 58
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 35
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 58
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 282 + 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 just under $500.

$350 Intel

Part Model Price Case
CPU Intel Celeron 420 44
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Asus P5S-MX-SE 58
RAM 1GB Corsair DDR2-667 kit 35
Hard Drive 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax SATA HDD 58
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 35
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 58
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 288 + Postage

Here is an Intel version of the workstation, for those who prefer Intel's products.

$500 AMD

Part Model Price Case
CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 135
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Gigabyte MA69VM-S2 70
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 60
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 70
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 35
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 58
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 425 + Postage

This is a fairly good base system. The AMD chipset means it has reasonable ATi X1200 video. The case isn't too bad, its cheap but not sore on the eyes.

$500 Intel

Part Model Price Case
CPU Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 105
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Gigabyte G31MX-S2 95
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 60
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 70
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 35
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 58
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 423 + Postage

$750 Intel

Part Model Price Case
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 318
Antec SLK1650B
Motherboard Intel DG33BU 131
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 60
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 70
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 35
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Antec SLK1650B 77
Power Supply Included With Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 691 + Postage

With a quad core CPU and 2GB 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. If the budget allows, another 2GB of RAM wouldn't hurt, though.

$1000 Intel, CAD Machine

Part Model Price Case
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 219
Antec SLK1650B
Motherboard Gigabyte P35-DS3L 123
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 65
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 70
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 35
Graphics Card nVidia Quadro FX 560 359
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Antec SLK1650B 88
Power Supply Included With Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 959 + Postage

$1250 Intel, CAD Machine

Part Model Price Case
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 318
Antec SLK1650B
Motherboard Gigabyte P35-DS3L 123
RAM 2x 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 130
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 70
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 35
Graphics Card nVidia Quadro FX 1500 543
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Antec SLK1650B 88
Power Supply Included With Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 1308 + Postage

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