Builds by budget

XHotxEx791 · 08-07-2005, 06:11 AM

This list is subject to changes. Keep in mind its just an example. Because lots of people are inquiring about builds, i've just created a basic list of parts for budgets of $800, $1000, $1500, and $2000+. No links are given b/c i'm too lazy. lol. But just go to newegg and search. PEripherals such as monitors/keyboard/mouse/and speakers are not included.

$700 and below build
eMachines t6212
eMachines t6210
eMachines t6410
eMachines t6522

$800 build
ASPIRE X-Dreamer II ATXB4KLW-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 420W Power Supply-56
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Socket 939 Processor-146
Arctic SIlver Premium Photosynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5-8
CHAINTECH VNF4/Ultra Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard-83
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model VS1GBKIT400-87
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-62
NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A-41
Windows XP Home Edition w/SP2-92 (Do you need?)
Rosewill RP550 ATX 550W Power Supply-57
eVGA 6600GT 128MB DDR3/PCI-E/TV-Out/Dual-DVI-169

Total $709 without windows. All prices are from newegg and doesn't include tax/shipping/handling.

$1000 build
ASPIRE X-Dreamer II ATXB4KLW-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 420W Power Supply-56
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Socket 939 Processor-146
Arctic SIlver Premium Photosynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5-8
DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard-198
OCZ Enhanced Latency 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Copper Heatspreader Model OCZ4001024ELDC-K-128
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-62
NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A-41
Microsoft Windows XP Home w/Service Pack 2-92 (Do you need?)
eVGA 6600GT 128MB DDR3/PCI-E/TV-Out/Dual-DVI-169
Rosewill RP550 ATX 550W Power Supply-57

Total $957 without windows. All prices are from newegg and doesn't include tax/shipping/handling. To bump it up to $1000, upgrade to either:
A. Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego Socket 939 Processor-229
B. A Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-123.
C. A Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS Gamer Edition-113 used to be on sale for $69, so if its no longer on sale, get the regular or value Audigy 2 ZS.
D. eVGA 6800 256MB DDR/PCI-E/TV-Out/Dual-DVI-229
E. Better psu/case, too varied to choose. Only opinion is at least 400watts and at least 18A on the +12V rail.

$1500 build
ASPIRE X-Dreamer II ATXB4KLW-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 420W Power Supply-56
Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego Socket 939 Processor-229
Arctic SIlver Premium Photosynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5-8
DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard-198
OCZ Enhanced Latency 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Copper Heatspreader Model OCZ4001024ELDC-K-128
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-123
NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A-41
Microsoft Windows XP Home w/Service Pack 2-92 (Do you need?)
Rosewill RP550 ATX 550W Power Supply-57
Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS Gamer Edition-113
eVGA 6800GT 256MB DDR3/PCI-E/TV-Out/Dual-DVI-345

Total $1390 without windows. All prices are from newegg and doesn't include tax/shipping/handling. To bump it up to $1500, upgrade to either:
A. Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego Socket 939 Processor-381
B. 2GB of ram instead OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory Model OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K-270
C. 300GB hard drive Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-165 and 2 DVD-Burners, same as in the list.
D. Better psu/case, too varied to choose. Only opinion is at least 400watts and at least 18A on the +12V rail.

$2000 build+
ASPIRE X-Dreamer II ATXB4KLW-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 420W Power Supply-56
Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego Socket 939 Processor-381
Arctic SIlver Premium Photosynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5-8
DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard-198
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory Model OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K-270
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-165
2x NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A-82
Microsoft Windows XP Home w/Service Pack 2-92 (Do you need?)
Rosewill RP550 ATX 550W Power Supply-57
Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS Gamer Edition-113
eVGA 256-P2-N528-AX Geforce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card-504
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Edition-113

Total $2039 without windows. All prices are from newegg and doesn't include tax/shipping/handling. To bump it up to $2000+, upgrade to either:
A. Athlon 64 FX-55, FX-57, or FX-59 when released. Also dual-cores Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 4400+, 4600+, or 4800+.
AMD Athlon 64 FX57 San Diego 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADAFX57BNBOX-1100
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4400CDBOX-669
B. OCZ 4GB or 2xOCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory Model OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K-540
C. Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Edition-176
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro Edition-214
D. THERMALRIGHT XP-90C Heatsink-63 or
THERMALRIGHT XP-120 Heatsink -55
E. 7800GTX Sli.
F. Better psu/case, too varied to choose. Only opinion is at least 400watts and at least 18A on the +12V rail.

Intel Build. Same parts except for ram, processor, and motherboard. For ram, corsair ram will be replaced by:

CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model VS1GBKIT533D2-85

OCZ RAM By CORSAIR XMS 2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 675 (PC2 5400) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO-214

Motherboard will be ASUS P5GD1-VM Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 915G Micro ATX Intel Motherboard-$100 for the cheapest build, $700 one. All other builds, you should get:
ASUS P5WD2 Premium Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 955X ATX Intel Motherboard-199

Depending on the budget, processor choice is up to you.
intel Pentium D 820 Smithfield 800MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core, EM64T Processor Model BX80551PG2800FN-246
intel Pentium 4 640 Prescott 800MHz FSB LGA 775 EM64T Processor Model BX80547PG3200F-275
intel Pentium D 830 Smithfield 800MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core, EM64T Processor Model BX80551PG3000FN-317
intel Pentium 4 650 Prescott 800MHz FSB LGA 775 EM64T Processor Model BX80547PG3400F-404
intel Pentium D 840 Smithfield 800MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core, EM64T Processor Model BX80551PG3200FN-543
intel Pentium 4 660 Prescott 800MHz FSB LGA 775 EM64T Processor Model BX80547PG3600F-611
intel Pentium 4 670 Prescott 800MHz FSB LGA 775 EM64T Processor Model BX80547PG3800F-840
intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 Smithfield 800MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core, EM64T Processor Model BX80551PGH3200F-1006
intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition Prescott 1066MHz FSB LGA775 EM64T Processor Model-1008

TheNomad · 08-07-2005, 01:15 PM

another good site with different price builds is www.sunkend.com

drunkbum222 · 08-07-2005, 03:35 PM

With the shipping on the first one it would be like a $760 build. Im making my computer with a X800 128 mb card for about $590 with the shipping. Then I would have money to get the ASPIRE Chameleon PSU and still keep it under $700 with the shipping. So then I would get 2 or 3 new fans and it would be around $687.

ripken2004 · 08-07-2005, 08:00 PM

here's mine, the high end is kinda old, like month or so, therfore the prices are a little off
http://frontiernet.net/~unholyknight...computers.html

08-07-2005, 06:11 AM	#1 (permalink)
XHotxEx791 Gold Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Hawaii Age: 19 Posts: 318	Builds by budget This list is subject to changes. Keep in mind its just an example. Because lots of people are inquiring about builds, i've just created a basic list of parts for budgets of $800, $1000, $1500, and $2000+. No links are given b/c i'm too lazy. lol. But just go to newegg and search. PEripherals such as monitors/keyboard/mouse/and speakers are not included. $700 and below build eMachines t6212 eMachines t6210 eMachines t6410 eMachines t6522 $800 build ASPIRE X-Dreamer II ATXB4KLW-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 420W Power Supply-56 AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Socket 939 Processor-146 Arctic SIlver Premium Photosynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5-8 CHAINTECH VNF4/Ultra Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard-83 CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model VS1GBKIT400-87 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-62 NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A-41 Windows XP Home Edition w/SP2-92 (Do you need?) Rosewill RP550 ATX 550W Power Supply-57 eVGA 6600GT 128MB DDR3/PCI-E/TV-Out/Dual-DVI-169 Total $709 without windows. All prices are from newegg and doesn't include tax/shipping/handling. $1000 build ASPIRE X-Dreamer II ATXB4KLW-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 420W Power Supply-56 AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Socket 939 Processor-146 Arctic SIlver Premium Photosynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5-8 DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard-198 OCZ Enhanced Latency 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Copper Heatspreader Model OCZ4001024ELDC-K-128 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-62 NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A-41 Microsoft Windows XP Home w/Service Pack 2-92 (Do you need?) eVGA 6600GT 128MB DDR3/PCI-E/TV-Out/Dual-DVI-169 Rosewill RP550 ATX 550W Power Supply-57 Total $957 without windows. All prices are from newegg and doesn't include tax/shipping/handling. To bump it up to $1000, upgrade to either: A. Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego Socket 939 Processor-229 B. A Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-123. C. A Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS Gamer Edition-113 used to be on sale for $69, so if its no longer on sale, get the regular or value Audigy 2 ZS. D. eVGA 6800 256MB DDR/PCI-E/TV-Out/Dual-DVI-229 E. Better psu/case, too varied to choose. Only opinion is at least 400watts and at least 18A on the +12V rail. $1500 build ASPIRE X-Dreamer II ATXB4KLW-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 420W Power Supply-56 Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego Socket 939 Processor-229 Arctic SIlver Premium Photosynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5-8 DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard-198 OCZ Enhanced Latency 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Copper Heatspreader Model OCZ4001024ELDC-K-128 Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-123 NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A-41 Microsoft Windows XP Home w/Service Pack 2-92 (Do you need?) Rosewill RP550 ATX 550W Power Supply-57 Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS Gamer Edition-113 eVGA 6800GT 256MB DDR3/PCI-E/TV-Out/Dual-DVI-345 Total $1390 without windows. All prices are from newegg and doesn't include tax/shipping/handling. To bump it up to $1500, upgrade to either: A. Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego Socket 939 Processor-381 B. 2GB of ram instead OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory Model OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K-270 C. 300GB hard drive Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-165 and 2 DVD-Burners, same as in the list. D. Better psu/case, too varied to choose. Only opinion is at least 400watts and at least 18A on the +12V rail. $2000 build+ ASPIRE X-Dreamer II ATXB4KLW-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 420W Power Supply-56 Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego Socket 939 Processor-381 Arctic SIlver Premium Photosynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5-8 DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard-198 OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory Model OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K-270 Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-165 2x NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A-82 Microsoft Windows XP Home w/Service Pack 2-92 (Do you need?) Rosewill RP550 ATX 550W Power Supply-57 Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS Gamer Edition-113 eVGA 256-P2-N528-AX Geforce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card-504 Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Edition-113 Total $2039 without windows. All prices are from newegg and doesn't include tax/shipping/handling. To bump it up to $2000+, upgrade to either: A. Athlon 64 FX-55, FX-57, or FX-59 when released. Also dual-cores Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 4400+, 4600+, or 4800+. AMD Athlon 64 FX57 San Diego 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADAFX57BNBOX-1100 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4400CDBOX-669 B. OCZ 4GB or 2xOCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory Model OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K-540 C. Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Edition-176 Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro Edition-214 D. THERMALRIGHT XP-90C Heatsink-63 or THERMALRIGHT XP-120 Heatsink -55 E. 7800GTX Sli. F. Better psu/case, too varied to choose. Only opinion is at least 400watts and at least 18A on the +12V rail. Intel Build. Same parts except for ram, processor, and motherboard. For ram, corsair ram will be replaced by: CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model VS1GBKIT533D2-85 OCZ RAM By CORSAIR XMS 2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 675 (PC2 5400) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO-214 Motherboard will be ASUS P5GD1-VM Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 915G Micro ATX Intel Motherboard-$100 for the cheapest build, $700 one. All other builds, you should get: ASUS P5WD2 Premium Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 955X ATX Intel Motherboard-199 Depending on the budget, processor choice is up to you. intel Pentium D 820 Smithfield 800MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core, EM64T Processor Model BX80551PG2800FN-246 intel Pentium 4 640 Prescott 800MHz FSB LGA 775 EM64T Processor Model BX80547PG3200F-275 intel Pentium D 830 Smithfield 800MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core, EM64T Processor Model BX80551PG3000FN-317 intel Pentium 4 650 Prescott 800MHz FSB LGA 775 EM64T Processor Model BX80547PG3400F-404 intel Pentium D 840 Smithfield 800MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core, EM64T Processor Model BX80551PG3200FN-543 intel Pentium 4 660 Prescott 800MHz FSB LGA 775 EM64T Processor Model BX80547PG3600F-611 intel Pentium 4 670 Prescott 800MHz FSB LGA 775 EM64T Processor Model BX80547PG3800F-840 intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 Smithfield 800MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core, EM64T Processor Model BX80551PGH3200F-1006 intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition Prescott 1066MHz FSB LGA775 EM64T Processor Model-1008 __________________ damasta55r-computing.net tech-forums.net cnet gamespot computerforum.com (banned account) Last edited by XHotxEx791; 08-07-2005 at 11:27 PM.

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08-07-2005, 01:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
TheNomad Bronze Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 81	another good site with different price builds is www.sunkend.com

08-07-2005, 03:35 PM	#3 (permalink)
drunkbum222 Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 277	With the shipping on the first one it would be like a $760 build. Im making my computer with a X800 128 mb card for about $590 with the shipping. Then I would have money to get the ASPIRE Chameleon PSU and still keep it under $700 with the shipping. So then I would get 2 or 3 new fans and it would be around $687.

08-07-2005, 08:00 PM	#4 (permalink)
ripken2004 Platinum Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 534	here's mine, the high end is kinda old, like month or so, therfore the prices are a little off http://frontiernet.net/~unholyknight...computers.html