The $600 random winter holiday PC

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited February 2009 in Science & Tech
The $600 random winter holiday PC

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  • KometeKomete Member
    edited January 2009
    I read this at work earlier. That was an awsome writeup.

    "We know that AMD and Intel have hot new chips, but we reckon that a $600 rig that makes virtually anything its bitch might be a little hard to overlook. Do we have your attention yet?"

    When I read that I said yep and read on.lol GJ
  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited January 2009
    This thing just gets better and better as prices come down. So easy to build a stout PC now days.
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited January 2009
    I love the E Series C2D chips. For the price, they give an awful lot of grunt, and they're very overclockable, from what I've read. I have a 7200 still running stock, and I haven't yet even felt the need to push it. Though, a coworker has one of these and ran it solidly at 3.2GHz on STOCK cooling, bumping it up to 3.6 with a Zalman something-or-other-that-I-can't-remember.

    It's amazing how far down RAM prices have come just in the last few months. When I did my last upgrade in October, I spent about $95 for my 8GB of DDR2-800. Now, I could pick that up for around $50.
  • DrLiamDrLiam British Columbia
    edited January 2009
    But what about Canadian Dollars? :P

    The $800 random winter holiday PC! :D
  • benjamintbenjamint
    edited February 2009
    for someone who doesn't know alot about computers... would this be easy to put together?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    That really, really depends on your definition of "doesn't know a lot." If you're pretty capable with a screwdriver and are willing to ask some questions on a forum, we can teach anyone how to put a PC together without issue. If you don't know the difference between a power supply or a processor (I met someone like this yesterday who was trying to build a PC), you might be in for a spit of trouble.

    If you had to genuinely rate your familiarity and/or expertise with a computer's innards, on a scale of 1-10, what would you say?
  • SonorousSonorous F@H Fanatic US Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    I am a 1. It's cake. I have helped several friends build rigs with limited knowledge of hardware. You just have to keep your cool when you do it, and think every step through on your first couple builds. Then it's second nature after a while. I should make a poll and see who can plug sata/ide in with out looking at it.
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