the external drive puts you under the limit but I would personally spend the extra $30 to up it to 1TB. No solid justifications on some of the parts besides dual monitors increase my productivity and the multicore allows me to virtualize. Also, don't know if that budget limit is excluding shipping which was my assumption.
LukeAnderson
· 1 year ago
I agree with Chance on the dual monitors, as they are great for productivity. However, for the sake of cost, we should go with 19-inch screens.
However, I'd scale things back a bit in the power department since it's only a Home Office computer. A cheaper Core 2 Duo E7300 should be plenty of power, with 2GB of RAM. Same goes for the RAID 5 configuration. It has its benefits, but we are on a budget. A single SATA drive with an external drive for backup should do.
I spent a little extra on a nicer case, because in my experience you get what you pay for in a case. The power supplies that come in those don't usually last long, so I've included a nicer one here.
A couple of things that were left out of Chance's list include an optical drive (an inexpensive IDE DVD burner is just fine), keyboard/mouse and of course the OS. I put in Vista Business, but that is just personal preference, and XP Pro can be had for the exact same price.
Shipping does usually play a factor (since you have to pay it) so I've selected a few of my items based on their shipping cost (opting for ones that had free shipping helped significantly) and drove it down to only a mere $22 (depending on your location).
Final cost at the end of the day (including shipping): $999.22
I think you are missing a bet. This is to help Symantec scale back Norton so it won't hog resources on a Home/Office PC. Go with a decent video card and reasonably fast CPU, but most Home/Office PCs are horribly short on memory unless they have been upgraded aftermarket. Put in 2GB and put Windows Vista on it. Then load it full of worthless programs and visit a few porn pages to get it loaded down with spyware/adware. Now deliver it to them and really challenge them.
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Home Office PC Build
-2 monitors (min 20 in with min ~1600x~1200 resolution) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item... = ~$340
- quad core processor (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item...) =~$170
- motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item... = ~$60
- case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item... = ~27
- cooling fan http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item... =~$22
- 4GB memory (ddr2 1066) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item... = ~$82
- video card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item... = ~$75
- hdd (320GB 16MB cache SATA3)x3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item... = ~$120
- external backup http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item... =~$90
the external drive puts you under the limit but I would personally spend the extra $30 to up it to 1TB. No solid justifications on some of the parts besides dual monitors increase my productivity and the multicore allows me to virtualize. Also, don't know if that budget limit is excluding shipping which was my assumption.
However, I'd scale things back a bit in the power department since it's only a Home Office computer. A cheaper Core 2 Duo E7300 should be plenty of power, with 2GB of RAM. Same goes for the RAID 5 configuration. It has its benefits, but we are on a budget. A single SATA drive with an external drive for backup should do.
I spent a little extra on a nicer case, because in my experience you get what you pay for in a case. The power supplies that come in those don't usually last long, so I've included a nicer one here.
A couple of things that were left out of Chance's list include an optical drive (an inexpensive IDE DVD burner is just fine), keyboard/mouse and of course the OS. I put in Vista Business, but that is just personal preference, and XP Pro can be had for the exact same price.
Shipping does usually play a factor (since you have to pay it) so I've selected a few of my items based on their shipping cost (opting for ones that had free shipping helped significantly) and drove it down to only a mere $22 (depending on your location).
Final cost at the end of the day (including shipping): $999.22
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