How does this look for a good, no-frills computer?

InorganicMatter

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This computer is strictly for office use. Word, Excell, Outlook, Internet Explorer, etc. We will probably end up building 8 of these so I would like to keep the cost down. I need a cheap PSU to fuel all this that is very reliable. What I had in mind:

Intel 945G mATX motherboard
Pentium 4 521 (Prescott, 2.8GHz, 1MB Cache)
1GB Corsair Value RAM
Onboard video/sound/LAN
Cheap IDE Hard Drive
Cheap CD-RW

As you can see, I meant it when I said no frills. Takaman calculator projects 14A draw on the 12V rail, and like 10 on the 5V. What I had in mind:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1179255&CatId=1076

It's cheap, and seems to have the amps where it counts. Your thoughts?
 
Better of buying a pre built one. You can't compete with companies like Dell on these lowend systems.

And don't forget to include the OS in your pricing, and the monitor that Dell throws in for free,...and the keyboard and mouse.

EDIT: My bad. Totaly misunderstood your post. Sorry.
 
Met-AL said:
Better of buying a pre built one. You can't compete with companies like Dell on these lowend systems.

And don't forget to include the OS in your pricing, and the monitor that Dell throws in for free,...and the keyboard and mouse.
We already have workstations, we are just rebuilding them for as cheaply as possible (aka replace as few parts as we can). They already have monitors, keyboards, mice, hard drives, CDRW drives, cases OS (corporate XP Pro liscence), etc. All we are replacing is the core parts, so this route is cheaper by far.

Thanks for the link dave, I'll check it out.
 
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