I have been tasked to look at upgrading or building from scratch a school classroom of PC's that are somewhat decent.
Of course the school has a slim budget so I was hoping someone here had the same experience thrown at them.
They have a classroom of Lenovo Desktops with E2000's and 4G ram which seem not to be worth upgrading. If swapping out the cpu and ram was possible I'd consider it but not even sure the bios would support other cpus etc. and maybe 4G is the limit...
I'm presently searching eBay and amazon for a $350 US / $500CAD pieced solution. The school board is locked on purchasing computers from certain vendors leading to WAY over priced machines... (eg. i3 4Gigs $650 + taxes.)
A grey area would be piecing together pc parts and presenting a "computer building class" making it an legit purchase.
I don't mind eBay as long as I don't look like a moron with a large purchase of broken or faulty parts.
I posted here thinking in the small form forum there may be a small mb + cpu combo power house to fit the bill.
Although this will be running Auto-Cad and GFX stuff it still doesn't need to be 16 core, just usable.
Any help appreciated, keep in mind I'm in Canada. thx.
Of course the school has a slim budget so I was hoping someone here had the same experience thrown at them.
They have a classroom of Lenovo Desktops with E2000's and 4G ram which seem not to be worth upgrading. If swapping out the cpu and ram was possible I'd consider it but not even sure the bios would support other cpus etc. and maybe 4G is the limit...
I'm presently searching eBay and amazon for a $350 US / $500CAD pieced solution. The school board is locked on purchasing computers from certain vendors leading to WAY over priced machines... (eg. i3 4Gigs $650 + taxes.)
A grey area would be piecing together pc parts and presenting a "computer building class" making it an legit purchase.
I don't mind eBay as long as I don't look like a moron with a large purchase of broken or faulty parts.
I posted here thinking in the small form forum there may be a small mb + cpu combo power house to fit the bill.
Although this will be running Auto-Cad and GFX stuff it still doesn't need to be 16 core, just usable.
Any help appreciated, keep in mind I'm in Canada. thx.