New PC

November 19th, 2009 omo Posted in Gadgets | 2 Comments »

Christmas is EARLY this year wooo.

This post is work in progress. I’m not too keen on posting my personal spending to the world wide web but think of it as a way to tell you about what are the prices this day and age. I picked my parts based on influence from Vinny and silentpcreview.com. It’s not a bad start if you don’t mind spending 200+ on case and PSU!

112.34 – Motherboard

283.98 – CPU and RAM. Nothing special here.

262.13 – Case and PSU. I actually didn’t mean to buy this particular case but I didn’t double check when I purchased it…

26.49 – some heat sink

259.99 – systems drive

The Newegg orders have 2% cash back totalling to 13.58

The X25-M 80gb has a 30 rebate. If I bought the P183 as originally intended I would have saved $20+tax on top of another 25 rebate (and drop the cash back down by maybe 40 cents).

Oh, I spent 30 on a digital copy of Windows 7 Pro. Yeah go Alumni Account Powahs.

That adds up to…

974.93

Ouch. In return there is 43.58, so it tops over $931. If I didn’t screw up with my order it would have been under 900. orz. But all this is for an i5 system with 4gb of ram and a 80gb SSD. I think you can probably do slightly better if you go the way of Dell or HP as they’ll give you an i7 for about the same cost, plus keyboard, mouse, cables, and an optical drive (woo another $30 worth of stuff). You just won’t have the SSD and you’ll have a 250gb or 500gb drive. You won’t have an ultra-quiet system either. Not that matters, since an Antec 1200 is not exactly the quietest kid on the block unlike its cousins P183 and P193.

Oh, you won’t have the freedom to go SLI either, nor will you have SPDIF outs. You will have a video card that’s…like the one I’ll migrate over into this box though. I won’t count it since it sort of is “used” or whatever.

Then again I’m not sure I’m done spending yet. There may be 1 more upgrade. We’ll see. In addition I might end up buying a optical drive anyways, since it’s cheap and rather useful, instead of using an old one. Or just wait till Blu-Ray write drives are cheap enough.

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