Workstation
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AMD "Internet/Office Machine" updated 12/03/2010
Part | Model | Price | Case |
---|---|---|---|
CPU | AMD AM3 Athlon II x2 620 | 108 | |
Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-MA785GPMT-UD2H | 108 | |
RAM | Kingston 4GB DDR3 1333 | 122 | |
Hard Drive | Samsung F3 1TB SATA HDD | 88 | |
Optical Drive | Sony AD7240 | 35 | |
Graphics Card | Onboard from motherboard | Radeon HD4200 with 128MB | |
Sound Card | Onboard from motherboard | - | |
Case | Antec Two Hundred (200) | 61 | |
Power Supply | Silverstone Strider ST50F 500W | 64 | |
Cooling | - | - | |
Additional | - | - | |
Total Cost | $586 + Postage |
See also Whirlpool Basic Machine Configs
Some people are on a limited budget, and want a nice simple desktop for Internet/Office use and the like. This machine should be fine for these tasks. This system, a cheap keyboard/mouse, a basic copy of XP/Vista/Windows 7 or a Open Source variety Operating System like Linux which is FREE, a nice easy distribution is Ubuntu add a secondhand CRT/LCD monitor and it will provide a nice cost effective basic setup.
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 |