Workstation

Part	Model	Price
CPU	AMD AM3 Athlon II x4 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

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.

(one could opt for the x2 550 CPU for the same price and try their luck at unlocking cores but that type of user is not the intended target of this machine)

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	[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
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