Pleco_fan523

Okay, so here it goes... I have a slew of parts, and I want to build as many systems as I can. The budget is $100 per rig. The OS on each will be either Windows 7 Beta or Ubuntu. So don't worry about that. Okay. Ready, go.

NONE of these items are for sale. SO DON'T ASK!!!

CPUs:
(AM2) Athlon 64 X2 4200+
(775) Pentium D 820

Hard Drives:
40Gb IDE
40Gb IDE
120Gb IDE
160Gb SATA

RAM:
x2 240-pin 512Mb DDR2 667
x2 240-pin 512Mb DDR2 800
x1 184-pin 512Mb DDR 266

GPUs:
PCI- GeForce FX 5200
PCIe- GeForce 7300GT

Opticals:
16x DVD Rom IDE
52X CD-RW IDE
52x CD-RW IDE

Case:
x1 Mid-Tower ATX

PSUs:
250watt
150watt
250watt
250watt
230watt

Please post links to newegg if you can help. Good ideas +Rep!!!

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Sacre

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Nah. Just put together a crappy PC, show it as an awesome PC (giving links to stores that still sell the items at full price) and sell it on Craigslist for $500.

Pleco_fan523

I think you missed the point...

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Sacre

And you missed the sarcasm. Oh well, nevermind, don't reply, will just waste important space on the thread.

DIRTYDUCK

well thats gonna be tough..I dont see any MB's posted for those rigs so you will have to find a MB for each of them...also those PSU's are super small ones and I think you would be better off getting a antec 500w from officemax or something.

I will add to this post as I go I guess...

First of all you have the start of a pretty cool folding farm there. I bet if you looked around in the for sale section here you could find MBs for those chips for super cheap. One of the rigs you will need to run caseless but that's ok lots of people do that. I would try to make 1 rig with the best parts and 1 rig with the leftovers.

The 2nd rig can use one of those PSU's you ahve the the better one will be better off with an antec 500.

RIG 1

(AM2) Athlon 64 X2 4200+
120Gb IDE
160Gb SATA
x2 240-pin 512Mb DDR2 800 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231098
PCIe- GeForce 7300GT
16x DVD Rom IDE
52X CD-RW IDE
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ake-_-17153052
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813186155
x1 Mid-Tower ATX

RIG 2
(775) Pentium D 820
40Gb IDE
40Gb IDE
x2 240-pin 512Mb DDR2 667
PCI- GeForce FX 5200
52x CD-RW IDE
250watt PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813136033
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811147073

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Pleco_fan523

Well, If I gave you complete rigs to work with, then it wouldn't be a challenge.

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T3h_Ch33z_Muncha

ok i think two rigs would be good for those parts, because otherwise you would have to buy another CPU and GPU and probably RAM, as well as the case and motherboards you will have to buy.

so hows this:

rig 1
AMD Athlon 64 X2
160GB SATA + 40GB IDE (if necessary)
memory: x2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820104029
7300GT
16x DVD ROM
250 watt PSU (whichever is the best)
motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130172

rig 2
pentium D 820
40Gb IDE
120Gb IDE
x2 240-pin 512Mb DDR2 667
x2 240-pin 512Mb DDR2 800 (both will work at the same time at 667 right?)
FX 5200
x2 52x CD-RW IDE
250 watt PSU (second best)
case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811147073
motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128357 (you may find the onboard is actually superior to the FX 5200... just a report from a G31 user)

if you could give us an exact budget for the two rigs (pooled), because for example the case from newegg may be better than the one you currently have, and it would be foolish not to use it in the better rig just because it's "out of budget for the first one but not for the second"

ya?

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Pleco_fan523

Total of $200. That is all I got.

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DIRTYDUCK

OK im done...I think its pretty well thought out.

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Sacre

If you're only building two, you know you can use multiple PSUs in one PC.