Your Thoughts please

[stca16]

I am building this system for a customer for a home business, he will be doing light cad work with auto-cad 6 , and running 3 other programs at the same time , none of them too extensive. i,m trying to keep it under 1500 bucks as the comp is part of another deal we have going. If I should go The Intel route please give me sugggestions about motherboard, memory and cpu changes and keep it within + - 200 bucks of the target. I know nothing of intel so thats why I'm asking.





Product Description Unit Price Extended Price
1
Thermaltake Silver Gaming Tower XaserV Series WinGo Full-Tower Case, Model "V8000A" -RETAIL
Item# N82E16811133130
$90.00

$ 90.00




1
GIGABYTE "GA-K8NS PRO" nForce3 250 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket 754 CPU -RETAIL
Item# N82E16813128241
$88.00

$ 88.00




1
Chaintech nVIDIA GeForce 6600 Video Card, 256MB DDR, 128-Bit, DVI/TV-Out, AGP 8X, Model "SA6600" -RETAIL
Item# N82E16814145112
$119.00

$ 119.00




1
VANTEC VAN-520A (520W) Black Aluminum Power Supply -RETAIL
Item# N82E16817103473
$95.00

$ 95.00




1
AMD Athlon 64 3700+, Socket 754, 1MB L2 Cache 64-bit Processor - Retail
Item# N82E16819103464
$263.45

$ 263.45




2
Kingston VALUERAM 184-Pin 1GB DDR PC-2700, Model KVR333X64C25/1G - OEM

Item# N82E16820141429
$92.37

$ 184.74




1
Samsung 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive, Model SFD321B/LEB, OEM Drive Only
Item# N82E16821103202
$8.50

$ 8.50




1
Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD2500JD, OEM Drive Only
Item# N82E16822144154
$114.00

$ 114.00




1
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD740GD, OEM Drive Only
Item# N82E16822144160
$186.00

$ 186.00




1
Acer AL1914smd-8 (Silver/Black) 19" LCD Monitor w/ Speakers - Retail
Item# N82E16824009044
$295.99

$ 295.99




1
LITE ON 52x32x52 Internal IDE CD-RW Drive, Model SOHR-5239S BEIGE, OEM Bulk
Item# N82E16827106977
$22.99

$ 22.99




1
Lite-On Beige 16X DVD+/-R DVD Burner support Dual Layer, Model SOHW-1693S Beige, OEM Bulk
Item# N82E16827106990
$44.00

$ 44.00




1
Electronic Waste Recycling Act15-34
Item# N82E168EWRA002
$8.00

 

[alrox]

Your CPU/MB combo is outdated.

If he wants an expensive case that's fine, but $95 for a power supply in that system is extreme overkill.

Since he will be doing mostly 3D work and multitasking, I'd suggest getting a Pentium D. The 820 is cheaper than the 3700+ and outperforms it greatly when it comes to multitasking.

Here's what I would buy if I was that guy:

DVD Burner
Case/Power Supply
Floppy Drive
74GB Raptor
250GB WD2500JD
19" LCD
6600 256mb video
Intel Motherboard
Pentium D 820 (2x2.8ghz cores)
2 sticks of 1gb DDR2-533

The total with shipping is $1471.09. If he wants to game on it as well and keep it under $1500 still, I'd ditch the raptor and put that money into a 6800GT or 6600GT.