TechRepublic: Build the biggest bang per dollar PCs: 06 2007

[vizwhiz]

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/Ou/?p=539

 

It’s Father’s day coming up and what better way to put a smile on Dad’s face than a new computer. The timing couldn’t be better with the arrival of the newest 3-Series motherboards from Intel and the somewhat new 690G AMD motherboards which I reviewed yesterday so it’s time to build a new PC with the biggest bang per dollar. For this edition I’ll include 4 build lists from a basic but powerful PC in the $700 range up to an enthusiast PC in the $3200 range. If you’re not sure how to build a PC but you’re willing to give it a shot, I have this step-by-step tutorial with photos.

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Two $700 to $850 Value PCs with 19″ LCD

 

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=539&page=2

 

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Two $1340 Mainstream PCs with 22″ LCD

 

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=539&page=3

 

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check out page 4

 

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=539&page=4

 

"The $3200 Enthusiast PC with 2.5 TB hot-swap and 27″ LCD"

 

This enthusiast PC is the dream computer for anyone with roughly $3000 to spend. There isn’t a retail or online PC you can buy that even comes to these prices. Chances are you’ll have to spend double the money for something this good and you still won’t get the high-performance terabyte hot-swap storage subsystem.

This liquid cooled monster has the potential to run at 3.6 GHz or maybe even 4 GHz. With 2 terabytes of fault-tolerant RAID that operates at four times the speed of a normal hard drive, your operating system will scream.

 

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hope This helps

 

randy

[Ghan]

Me want!!!!

Droooooooool

 

Greetz

Ghan

[ChrisTek]

Wow... if only I had three grand to blow on a machine...

[AFK_Matrix]

Meh did they have to put it in a thermaltak case There are so many better options out there. And $87 for the watercooling and he wants to Overclock it!!!! EEk . Would personally go for a Swiftech Ultra kit but anyway the rest of the kit is nice. I have a E6600 and its not even one of the good batch and I can get 3.8GHz out of it on water and it runs day in day out at 3.6 but thats with the best watercooling you can get ($450 roughly).

 

And as for his advice on how to see if an overclock is stable, god help us all. If your gonna overclock first off READ READ READ lol and then get some software to test the stability and software to monitor temps etc.