General Purpose Machines
Budget: <500CADNothing special about this machine although compared to the $500 gaming box, this rig is a lot more upgradeable due to it's PCI-Express nature although it is still based on the discontinued S754 platform
Budget: <600CADDowngrading from the X600Pro to the X300SE, we can fit in a dualcore CPU
Budget: <700CADThe extra $100 allows us to upgrade the CPU as well as bring back the X600Pro
Budget: <800CADThe extra $100 allows us to make a substantial upgrade on the videocard
Budget: <900CADWith the budget bump we've got enough to easily make the switch to the Ahlon 64 X2 platform
Budget: <1000CADHere we've upgraded to the X800GTO and upgraded the motherboard significantly
Budget: <1100CADHere we've upgraded both the PSU/case as well as the processor
Budget: <1200CADHere we've made a CPU sacrifice to get the 7800GT into the spec
Budget: <1300CADThis budget allows us to comfortably bring back the items that were trimmed back to make room for the 7800GT originally
Budget: <1400CADHere we comfortably make the switch to a 2GB of memory setup
Budget: <1500CADWith the extra $100 we've upgraded the PSU slightly and shuffled the harddrive configuration for an extra 150GB
Bugger Budget?
I would reccomend you reconsider your performance requirements as "general purpose computer" tasks should be more than adequately handled by the configurations above. If not, feel free to make a post idenfying your particular needs