Bang for the Buck factor?

[rogue1979]

Just curious about what everybody pays to build a system. How about listing the price of each component (including shipping and tax) and were you bought it? Just the case and internal components, not the external peripherals, monitor, speakers, mouse or keyboard. Then take your best 3DMark2001 score and divide by the total price of the components. I'll start.

CPU: 1700+ t-bred "B", newegg $56 (@2104MHz)
Motherboard: MSI 745 Ultra, refurbished newegg $39 (183x 11.5)
Memory: 512MB Crucial PC2700, Mwave $83
Video Card: Asus GF4Ti4200 128MB 8420 Deluxe, refurbished newegg $99 (300/662)
Hard Drive: 60GB Maxtor 7200rpm, CompUsa $49 after rebates
Case: generic, local $19 (modified)
Heatsink/Fan: AX7 with Enermax 80mm adjustable fan, newegg $39
Case fans: Galaxy 80mm ball bearing fans, Nexfan $1.75 x 5 (7-volt modded)
Modem: Lucent chipset 56K, local $11
Sound Card: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, Amazon $40
Lan: Real Tek 10/100, local $9
Power Supply: Allied 450-watt, newegg $46
CD-Rom: generic 44X, used local $10
floppy: Anandtech ForSale forums, $3
CD-Burner: Iomagic 16X, local $25

Total: $536.75
3DMark2001 12,940 divided by 536.75 = 24.1 pts.

 

[THUGSROOK]

Modem: Lucent chipset 56K, local $11

dont be lame ~ get a real modem

 

[rogue1979]

It works great, here in Monument, Colorado I hook up at 52Kbps everytime. There is only one high speed provider available, and they suck.

Thugs, you have a nice system, put it up here so we can see how it does!

 

[rogue1979]

That was kinda of a lot of stuff to post. Maybe we should change it to:

Cpu, motherboard, memory, video card and heatsink/cooling (including all fans), and case?

Bang for the Buck factor would then be 37.64 for me.

 

[Megatomic]

CPU: 2100+ Tbred "B" from GoogleGear $91 (2.16GHz (13 x 166))
Motherboard: Epox 8RDA+ from NewEgg $111 (166 x 13)
Memory: 1 x 512MB Corsair XMS PC3200 from a trade (I gave 2 x 512MB Kingston ValueRam PC2700 that cost $170 from GoogleGear)
Video Card: VisionTek GF4 Ti 4200 SE 128MB from Wal-Mart (I kid you not!) $199 (275/550 with reprogrammed BIOS)
Hard Drive: 2 x 60GB Maxtor ATA133 7200RPM from Best Buy $105 for both after rebates
Case: Antec SX840 (bought new from an ATer in the FS/FT forum for $45)
Heatsink/Fan: CoolerMaster HHC-001 (free in trade for some old ECC SDRAM that was free to me)
Case fans: 2 x 80mm, came with case for free
Modem: none
Sound Card: nForce2 APU
LAN: nForce2 LAN
Power Supply: Antec PP412X 400W SmartPower from a friend at ADF $30
CD-Rom: none
Floppy: free
CD-Burner: TDK VeloCD 40x12x48B from Best Buy $39 after rebates
DVD-ROM: Hitachi GD-7500 12X/40X from a trade (I gave an ASUS CD-ROM that cost me $40)

Total: $830
3DMark2001 12,065
= $14.54/3DMark2001SE units
You beat me rogue1979.

 

[rogue1979]

Still a nice system

 

[Blain]

If I would have known that Newegg was guaranteeing their 1700+ CPUs to run 2.1GHz, I would have bought one from them.
When did they start selling these?

It seems that I'm always a day late and dollar short. :Q

 

[rogue1979]

It was luck of the draw, some people got t-bred "A" cpu's, alot of people got the desired "B". I bought another one from excaliberpc.com and they guarantee the stepping. Seems like almost everyone is hitting 2.0 to 2.2GHz from the 1700+ t-bred "B".