{"id":355,"date":"2006-02-21T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/?p=355"},"modified":"2006-03-17T11:40:33","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T15:40:33","slug":"techspots-low-end-pc-buying-guide-techspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/21\/techspots-low-end-pc-buying-guide-techspot\/","title":{"rendered":"TechSpot&#8217;s Low-end PC Buying Guide @ TechSpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/articles\/lowendpc\/lowend-4.shtml\">TechSpot&#8217;s Low-end PC Buying Guide @ TechSpot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basic Configuration &#8211; Under $600<br \/>\nPlus Windows XP Shipping and Taxes (if applicable):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD Sempron 3000 &#8211; $87<\/li>\n<li>ASRock K8NF4GSATA2 Micro ATX &#8211; $65<\/li>\n<li>Onboard video &#8211; $0<\/li>\n<li>512MB (256&#215;2) PC3200 DDR &#8211; $50<\/li>\n<li>Onboard sound &#8211; $0<\/li>\n<li>Stereo speakers &#8211; $7<\/li>\n<li>80GB 7200RPM SATA &#8211; $55<\/li>\n<li>BenQ 17\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (FP71G ) &#8211; $215<\/li>\n<li>DVD-ROM 16x &#8211; $20<\/li>\n<li>Basic keyboard, mouse &#8211; $20<\/li>\n<li>Inwin\/Powmax budget case &#8211; $35<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recommended Configuration \u00e2\u20ac\u201c About $1000<br \/>\nPlus Windows XP Shipping and Taxes (if applicable):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD Athlon 64 3200 Socket 939 &#8211; $170<\/li>\n<li>MSI K8NGM2-FID Motherboard &#8211; $90<\/li>\n<li>NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT &#8211; $120<\/li>\n<li>1GB PC3200 DDR &#8211; $85<\/li>\n<li>Creative SB Audigy &#8211; $30<\/li>\n<li>Logitech X-220 2.1 &#8211; $40<\/li>\n<li>200GB 7200RPM SATA &#8211; $90<\/li>\n<li>Hyundai 19\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (B90A) &#8211; $300<\/li>\n<li>16x Dual-Layer DVD\u00c2\u00b1RW &#8211; $40<\/li>\n<li>Basic keyboard, mouse &#8211; $20<\/li>\n<li>CoolerMaster Centurion 5 (380w PSU) &#8211; $60<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>***************************************************<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I have to admit that I have been looking at the MSI combination for as an inexpensive motherboard upgrade. My old AMD900 motherboard is toast. It had a problem about a month ago and the problem returned this month with a vengeance. I originally thought it was a disk drive or drive controller issue. Everything in it is old. Now I believe the problem is a motherboard or video card problem since it will no longer boot Ubuntu and it fails on the video card probe. I am not in a big rush since this is my dogfood server\/workstation. Just the same I would like to get it back running and with the least cost. This happens to be the philosophy of a lot of non-profits IT planning, too. They run Win98 because of the computers that they bought or had donated to them. Our Habitat affiliate recently bought some 3-4 year old refurbished computers for about $45 a piece. They run W2K which is a nice step forward. The problem is that buying a new $400 Dell makes more business sense from a support standpoint. Those old components are going to fail and the interruption to the &#8220;business&#8221; is much more expensive than the components.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechSpot&#8217;s Low-end PC Buying Guide @ TechSpot Basic Configuration &#8211; Under $600 Plus Windows XP Shipping and Taxes (if applicable): AMD Sempron 3000 &#8211; $87 ASRock K8NF4GSATA2 Micro ATX &#8211; $65 Onboard video &#8211; $0 512MB (256&#215;2) PC3200 DDR &#8211; $50 Onboard sound &#8211; $0 Stereo speakers &#8211; $7 80GB 7200RPM SATA &#8211; $55 BenQ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/21\/techspots-low-end-pc-buying-guide-techspot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TechSpot&#8217;s Low-end PC Buying Guide @ TechSpot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonprofit","category-sbs2k-sbs2k3"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iN3d-5J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}