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Revision as of 23:09, 4 May 2008

Contents

Basic AMD

Part Model Price Case
CPU AMD Sempron LE-1100 34
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Abit NF-M2SV 50
RAM 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 24
Hard Drive 160GB Samsung SATA HDD 50
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 32
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 60
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 250 + 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 40
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Asus P5S-MX-SE 55
RAM 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 24
Hard Drive 160GB Samsung SATA HDD 50
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 32
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 60
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 261 + 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 5200+ 100
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Abit AN-M2 67
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 45
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 68
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 32
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 60
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 372 + 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 Pentium Dual Core E2220 99
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Gigabyte G31M-S2L 67
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 45
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 68
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 32
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 60
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 369 + Postage

$750 Intel

Part Model Price Case
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 269
Antec SLK1650B
Motherboard Intel DG33BU 119
RAM 4GB Corsair DDR2-667 100
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 68
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 - 668 + 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 269
Antec SLK1650B
Motherboard Gigabyte P35-DS3L 99
RAM 4GB Corsair DDR2-667 100
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 68
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 35
Graphics Card nVidia Quadro FX 560 339
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Antec SLK1650B 77
Power Supply Included With Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 977 + Postage

$1500 Intel, CAD Machine

Part Model Price Case
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 269
Antec SLK1650B
Motherboard Gigabyte P35-DS3L 99
RAM 4GB Corsair DDR2-667 100
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 68
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 35
Graphics Card nVidia Quadro FX 1500 767
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Antec SLK1650B 77
Power Supply Included With Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 1415 + Postage