Workstation

Revision as of 11:49, 14 June 2008

Part	Model	Price
CPU	AMD Sempron LE-1100	34
Motherboard	Abit NF-M2SV	51
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	-	241 + 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
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
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

Part	Model	Price
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
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
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
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

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