$137.12 Backup Gaming Build Success.

[lightfoot__]

All costs are after tax, shipping, and other added costs.

video card
9600GSO (384MB)
$32.99 (SD - coupon - cashback - rebate)

CPU
Celeron 420 (1.6GHz 512KB cache)
$19.56 (Ebay - From Great Britain)

Motherboard
MSI P6NGM-FIH (775 630i Nvidia chipset)
$26.10 (Ebay)

CPU heatsink/fan
Masscool
$6.19 (Ebay - New in Box)

Case
Old steel case (The kind you can hit with bus and it might scratch)
$0.00

CDRW drive and a DVD-Rom Drive (plus a free optical mouse)
Ebay (The DVD rom drive isn't working... yet)
$15.50 (Ebay)

Memory
1GB x 2 DDR2-800 OCZ Gold (not here yet, used 2gb of similar crucial for testing)
$14.79 (SD - Cashback - Rebate)

Hard Drive
40GB SATA-150 Maxtor DiamondMax 8S 7200RPM 2MB
Average Read ~60MB/s (not bad for an old drive!)
$9.99 (Ebay)

PSU
Ultra 350 Watt (not yet in the build, used another psu for testing)
$12.00 (Ebay)

OS SP2 pro (license I have from last (gone) build)


3dmark 06 results
w/out video card (integrated 7050 graphics)
380marks

With video card and no cpu overclocking
~4400marks

With CPU at 2.4GHz
~6500marks

For $137.12
Not bad huh?

Hopefully I remembered to list everything. Updates to follow. I appreciated any questions or comments, or suggestions for things to do/try.

 

[dirtmountain]

Nicely done. Talk about budget builds!

 

[Guest]

lol... takes skill to do that

 

[z999]

what are you going to do w/ this thing?

 

[lightfoot__]

Use it as a backup. Maybe sell it eventually for as much as I paid. I just enjoy finding and assembling deals. And at this price I can afford it.

Why? Want it shipped to you for $250?

 

[Shadow703793]

Nice work. Is it OCed? .