The Best Budget System Ever!

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96redformula

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My friend need a budget system right away and the price is right :D . I will be using the rosewill power supply and onboard video. All parts from newegg except hard drive and OS. We get windows for $10 at our university so a grand total of $283 !!!!!!!

Rosewill R624BLK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower $24.99
Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M Socket 754 FREE with CPU
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Socket 754 $99.00
COOLER MASTER 80mm Cooling Fan/Heatsink $6.99
WINTEC AMPO 512MB 184-Pin DDR 400 $40.99
SAMSUNG 16X DVD±R DVD Burner $32.99
Western Digital 80GB Sata $45.00
Windows Professional $10.00

Shipping $23.51

GRAND TOTAL $283.47

So how is that for a budget build :D
 
wow, looks good!
the only thing is the psu....kinda worrysome qualitywise
 
that's pretty good..
Last night though, I was looking at the dell outlet..
if you refresh enough, you can get a Dimension E310 for about $250 before shipping and tax..
It was basically the same specs as what you got.. 2.8ghz p4, 512 mb ddr 533, dvd burner, 80gb hdd..
that 3400+ would be better, and you can kinda OC the gigabyte board. but the dell takes the win in the case department..

I should get that dell, but put an AMD board/cpu in it.. yeah.. that's it...
 
Nice....only thing is again, $10 for Windows Pro?

Also, I'd worry about the psu as well...
 
Celestial Avenger said:
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you wonder sometimes how that many people missed that part of the post, or saw the $10 windows pro and didn't decide to reread to see if they missed it.
 
I'd junk the PSU and invest about $100 into one that won't kill that thing.

Budget or not, it's not what you spend, it's how you spent it.
 
SamuraiInBlack said:
I'd junk the PSU and invest about $100 into one that won't kill that thing.

Budget or not, it's not what you spend, it's how you spent it.[/QUOTE

100 bucks for a budget system PSU? Heck no, you can get a solid 400w unit for 40 bucks from FSP/Antec/etc. It's also the only thing I'd add to this.
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I have had great luck with several thermaltake PSU units despite the hate for them here. I have an antec smartpower 2.0 550watt on the current overclocked system that was $100 -$50Compusa rebate. I will have to get my friend to get a better PSU later on. The rosewill PSU's have superb reviews on them so I am not worried about them for the short run till my friend can get some more cash(Yes, he is on that tight of a budget). He will have his career set soon being a fireman in San Antonio, so he will not have to worry about it in half a years time when he has money.

I go to school at UTEP in El Paso, TX. The school has it setup so that you can get:

Windows XP Profesional $10
Microsoft Office 2003 $16
Microsoft .net studio $35

and other microsoft products discounted.
 
Tigerdirect has the AMD 64 3300+ (aka 2.4ghz Sempr0n) for $19.97 AR

Unbeatable deal for a s754 setup.
 
Yeah, it has onboard video..... :) It is just a simple computer to do stuff for school, internet surfing, and other simple tasks.
 
WPI has a similar licensing program for distributing MS software....$5 for WinXP Pro and $5 for Office 2003 Pro isn't bad at all :p

Yet another reason to go to college
 
-=Antimatter=- said:
WPI has a similar licensing program for distributing MS software....$5 for WinXP Pro and $5 for Office 2003 Pro isn't bad at all :p

Yet another reason to go to college
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And then drop out once you have 5 copies of each :D
 
gotchya said:
And then drop out once you have 5 copies of each :D
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One copy per student :(

I think there's some exception if you have a laptop and desktop.

We're probably supposed to stop using them after we graduate, but.... :p

back on topic, to the OP, I think that system could use more RAM, depending on how he uses it. You gotta respect how much hardware you can get for under $500 these days.
 
Good luck with that power supply.
I'd spend $35 on a 350w Fortron and not have to worry.

oh and student copies of windows are great. RIT sells XP Pro x86 and XP Pro x64, $5 for both.
 
350W rosewill's have worked well for a lot of people. I didn't search too much on the PSU forum (read: not at all) but I don't recall them having a lot of issues with it. I agree that more RAM would be good. Especially when 1GB can be gotten for $70 or less these days... Paid too much per GB for the HD too. 250GB for ~$70 are available, 160 for ~$55 too.
 
96redformula said:
I go to school at UTEP in El Paso, TX. The school has it setup so that you can get:

Windows XP Profesional $10
Microsoft Office 2003 $16
Microsoft .net studio $35

and other microsoft products discounted.
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Whoa shit Im hoping to start on my Nursing BS at Utep in the fall

Thanks for the heads up!
Go Miners!
 
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