Workstation

$500 AM2

Part	Model	Price	Case
CPU	AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ EE	125
Motherboard	Asus M2NPV-MX	89
RAM	2x512MB Generic DDR2	84
Hard Drive	250GB Samsung SP2504C	99
Optical Drive	16x LiteOn SHM-165P6S	42
Graphics Card	Onboard from motherboard	-
Sound Card	Onboard from motherboard	-
Case	Foxconn TSAA805	49
Power Supply	Included with Case	-
Cooling	-	-
Additional	-	-
Total Cost	-	488 + Postage

This is a fairly good base system. Whilst primarily a 'work machine', you could possibly do some light gaming due to the onboard GeForce 6150 on the M2NPV-VM . It also features 1GB of RAM which is sufficient to run just about anything except for intense games xD. The case isn't too bad, its cheap but not sore on the eyes. You can have a look at it by clicking on the link.

With the recent AMD price drops, it has become worthwhile to include a dual-core CPU in this system.

This machine is a good value system, although some people may wish to drop down to a Sempron CPU and/or 512MB of RAM and get a better power supply.

$750 Core 2 Duo, Workstation

Part	Model	Price	Case
CPU	Core 2 Duo E4300	234
Motherboard	ASRock ConRoe945G-DVI	110
RAM	2x1GB Generic DDR2 667	170
Hard Drive	250GB Samsung SP2504C	99
Optical Drive	16x LiteOn SHM-165P6S	42
Graphics Card	Onboard from motherboard	-
Sound Card	Onboard from motherboard	-
Case	Foxconn TSAA805	49
Power Supply	430W Coolermaster Extreme Power	49
Cooling	-	-
Additional	-	-
Total Cost	-	753 + Postage

With a Core 2 Duo CPU and 2GB of RAM, this machine is a very quick workstation.