For those at home looking for the best bang for their buck dual core system with lots of ram (not for games), Mragrotime has used his tech knowledge and gone to newegg in your behalf, here is the system I have layed out for you.
The system specs are as such:
The system is a 2.0ghz allendale core 2 duo on a p35 gigabyte motherboard equiped with 4gb of a-data value ddr2 800hmgz ram with a 250 gig sata 2.0 seagate 7200.10 hardrive, rosewill case with 350 watt built in power supply, an 8400 gs
by gigabyte and an asus 20x dvd-r burner (retail)
The total cost of the system is at 376$ before shipping!
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Here are the parts:
70
cpu
Intel Pentium E2180 Allendale 2.0GHz 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor – Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116052
75
motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-P35-S3G LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard – Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128084
64
ram
A-DATA Value Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory – Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211271
65
hard drive
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive – OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262
31
case with psu
Rosewill R103A Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 350W Power Supply with 20
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147010
36
gpu
GIGABYTE GV-NX84G256HE GeForce 8400GS 256MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready Video Card – Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125080
35
optical drive
ASUS Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 14X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe – Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135156
May 15, 2009 at 2:01 am
Sounds like a decent system at a good price.