I would recommend staying
July 19, 2011 at 5:37 pm
#4888
babgvantKeymaster
I would recommend staying away from a system based on ancient hardware. Given the budget I can understand the motivation, but you don’t need to shoot so low to achieve that. Based on the requirements I’ve put together two sample systems – please note that this is very “back of the envelop” I put no effort into vetting the quality of the individual components (that said, mobo selection is probably the only thing I’d really worry about in the list).
SNB:
| Model | Cost | |
| Case | Rosewill R379-M | $50 |
| Board | ASRock H61M-GE LGA | $70 |
| CPU | Intel Pentium G620 | $78 |
| dGPU | N/A | $0 |
| RAM | G.SKILL NS 4GB (2 x 2GB) | $30 |
| ODD | LITE-ON iHAS124-04 | $19 |
| PSU | N/A | $0 |
| HD | WD Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS | $42 |
| Total | $289 |
Llano:
| Model | Cost | |
| Case | Rosewill R379-M | $50 |
| Board | ASRock A75M-HVS | $70 |
| CPU | AMD A6-3650 | 120 |
| dGPU | N/A | $0 |
| RAM | G.SKILL NS 4GB (2 x 2GB) | $30 |
| ODD | LITE-ON iHAS124-04 | $19 |
| PSU | N/A | $0 |
| HD | WD Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS | $42 |
| Total | $331 |