Assembling a 10k rig

[slugger]

I've been asked to assemble a rig within 10k. It is mainly going to be used for the foll purposes

1. Surfing (lots of it)
2. Word Processing (an occsional letter or document)
3. proxy server
4. occasional movie
5. CD writing operations (occasional)
6. Absolutely no gaming
Basically an ultra glorified typewriter

I plan to install the following swz

1. Win2k (if possible) or at least Win ME
2. Skype
3. Avast Antivirus
4. Nero
5. Either Office XP or Star Office or Open Office
6. Winamp (2.x if need be)

Keeping thes factors in mind I am thinking of building a system around Mercury's PVCLE266M-L Mobo

Heres the spec I have in mind for the rig

1. Mercury PVCLE266M-L
2. 80 GB HDD(Seagate Samsung)
3. 512 MB RAM
4. BenQ CD writer
5. USB Floppy Drive (specifically asked for)
6. Generic Keyboard and Mouse (or maybe Microtek or Mercury, budget permitting)
7. 15' Monitor
8. A decent enough cabinet (Intex or 'i' brand)
9. a 2.1 dabba with the balance amount


Do you think that the specs that I just mentioned will be able to handle the SWz that I plan to run on it and also is it possible to build the rig for under 10k with thw specs i mentioned (only the HW not the SW)

[akshayt]

10k is too low
extent to 15-20k for cd-rw,256mb od decent brand etc
go for intel celeron/amd sempron type,2.2ghz,128mb ram(very low,get atleast 256-512mb of it)

[Keith Sebastian]

Why assemble when you can buy it off the shelf??

http://www.xenitisgroup.com/

This one comes with 1 year service warranty, and from a ISO 9001 certified organization.

For your config, you should look at used parts if you want to stay below 10K.

-Keith

[AlienTech]

For 10K you want to use win200 on it? Which alone costs 10K????

You need to look at stuff from 5 years ago. All these cheap PC's they are coming out with dont run windows, they are linux. I was running XP on a 500 and 866MHZ P3 with 512meg ram and it does ru even office. Its slow but... You did get to burn CD's. You might have trouble burning cd's with some cheap computers.

For 11,000 you get, as you can see, 128meg instead of 512, 40 gig instead of 80, cd reader instead of writer...

Configuration
Celeron 2.4 GHZ
845 Intel Chipset Motherboard
128 MB DDR RAM
40 GB HDD
52x CD-ROM
1.44 MB FDD
15� Color Monitor
Keyboard
Mouse
Red hat Enterprise Linux 3 Prof. Workstation
(Includes 9 CDs with OS, Open Office Productivity Suite, Evolution Mail Client, Browsers, Games, Documentation, Database) – Complete Desktop
Mail to: xenitis@xenitisgroup.com for enquary

[Mahesh Babu]

AMD Sempron 2200 - Rs 2200
Gigabyte GA7VM motherboard - Rs 2100
128 MB 333Mhz Ram - Rs 1000
15" LG monitor - Rs 4300
Optical Mouse - Rs 150
Multimedia Keyboard - Rs 200
250 W SMPS - Rs 250

Total - Rs 10200

THis is a nice config
But u have to run this system without the cabinet.

[AlienTech]

Originally Posted by Mahesh Babu

THis is a nice config
But u have to run this system without the cabinet.

You can use the box the monitor came in as a cabinet and since you would be using it as an embedded system anyway, you could actually stick it under the kitchen sink in the cabinet as well.

And to think NASA pays zillions for a setup like this to run the space shuttle.

[akshayt]

You shd raise your budget tot atleast 15k

get atleast 256mb ram

and why shd not xp run fine with 256mb ram and 1ghz cpu
but if yoyu can get it then take 3.0ghz

anyways setle for second hand stuff if need be

[cybershastri]

Today,I read in a newspaper that HCL is launching a new computer for just 9960Rs. The config is :

VIA 1GHz Procc, 128MB RAM, 40 GB HDD, 15" Color Monitor.

What do you say about this??

[mohit]

i checked the HCL under 10 k pc and they have 2 models for that ... one is the via 1 ghz procc and the other is an intel celeron 1 ghz (priced 1k more) ... 1250/- bucks extra for service etc and taxes extra .. i recommend the intel celeron model to anybody who wants a very cheap affordable pc .. it looks good too... total price for the intel celeron model sould come around 12 k .. check out the details and specs here , u can also book ur pc here ,

http://www.hclstore.com/ezbpride/ezbpride.html

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@akshayt
man please stick to the topic and stop giving shittie suggestions .. he wants a pc for under 10k so provide him with a config / suggestions for that instead of blowing your same high end rigs trumpet again n again n again. u r asking him to take a 3.0 ghz procc which alone will cost him around 8.5 k (new) and 5k (second hand) ...wht d hell ???

[dabster]

the PC launched by HCL will be for sure slow for all the needs that the thread starter has ...
Consider the offer by http://www.xenitisgroup.com/ for the celeron D 2.4 Ghz, which will cost around Rs 11K...

[Ankur Gupta]

hey can u plz suggest me a good procy and mobo for abt 5.5K.
i am open for both intel and amd.
which is the cheapest mobo for amd which has 128mb shared onboard video memory?
and which is the cheapest procy from amd other than their sempron range.

[sidewinder]

Originally Posted by Mahesh Babu

AMD Sempron 2200 - Rs 2200
Gigabyte GA7VM motherboard - Rs 2100
128 MB 333Mhz Ram - Rs 1000
15" LG monitor - Rs 4300
Optical Mouse - Rs 150
Multimedia Keyboard - Rs 200
250 W SMPS - Rs 250

Total - Rs 10200

THis is a nice config
But u have to run this system without the cabinet.

256 mb am costs Rs 1000 this days man!!!!

[dada_patekar]

Mera Compaq ka 2003 walla model daba lay le Rs 10,000 ka.

specification hain sun kaan khol ke dada ki

128 MB ram
Intel 845G motherboard
pentium 4 1.9 ghz
JBL speaker 2.1
a free ups

bas

[jay4u]

Originally Posted by Mahesh Babu

AMD Sempron 2200 - Rs 2200
Gigabyte GA7VM motherboard - Rs 2100
128 MB 333Mhz Ram - Rs 1000
15" LG monitor - Rs 4300
Optical Mouse - Rs 150
Multimedia Keyboard - Rs 200
250 W SMPS - Rs 250

Total - Rs 10200

THis is a nice config
But u have to run this system without the cabinet.

i will sugest buying a second hand monitor from ebay and then get the cabinet from the remaining price