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Revision as of 20:09, 12 February 2008

Contents

Basic AMD

Part Model Price Case
CPU AMD Sempron LE-1100 40
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Abit NF-M2SV 58
RAM 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 24
Hard Drive 160GB Samsung SATA HDD 55
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 33
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 63
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 273 + 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.

Basic Intel

Part Model Price Case
CPU Intel Celeron 420 43
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Asus P5S-MX-SE 55
RAM 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 24
Hard Drive 160GB Samsung SATA HDD 55
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 33
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 63
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 273 + 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+ 125
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Gigabyte MA69VM-S2 70
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 48
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 70
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 33
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 63
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 406 + 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 E2200 99
Asus TA-881
Motherboard Asus P5KPL-VM 83
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 48
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 70
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 33
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Asus TA-881 63
Power Supply Included with Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 396 + Postage

$750 Intel

Part Model Price Case
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 309
Antec SLK1650B
Motherboard Intel DG33BU 129
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 48
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 70
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 33
Graphics Card Onboard from motherboard -
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Antec SLK1650B 77
Power Supply Included With Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 666 + 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 E8400 239
Antec SLK1650B
Motherboard Gigabyte P35-DS3L 110
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 48
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 77
Power Supply Included With Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 938 + Postage

$1250 Intel, CAD Machine

Part Model Price Case
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 315
Antec SLK1650B
Motherboard Gigabyte P35-DS3L 110
RAM 2x 2GB Kingston DDR2-667 96
Hard Drive 250GB Samsung SP2504C 70
Optical Drive LG GSA-H62N 18x SATA DVDRW 35
Graphics Card nVidia Quadro FX 1500 757
Sound Card Onboard from motherboard -
Case Antec SLK1650B 77
Power Supply Included With Case -
Cooling - -
Additional - -
Total Cost - 1460 + Postage