Business Capable White Box

[Morpth]

Hi,

I am looking to build a budget Office white box. I already have a Monitor, mouse, keyboard, the OS (Win XP Pro SP2).

I am looking into the Antec NSK4400 for the chassis; (thanks megaBgon for the recommedation on the Antec); as well as NEC ND-3550A BK DVD Burner. A floppy is a must as the office workers require one.

Having stated the above, I am looking for a good long lasting system that usues something better than a celeron or sempron cpu. Graphics to be better than the Intel Extreme software subsystem and has at least 512MB ram. Looking at a Hard drive bigger than 40GB would be nice.

Trying to keep the system under $500.00. Any suggestions?

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: Morpth
Hi,

I am looking to build a budget Office white box. I already have a Monitor, mouse, keyboard, the OS (Win XP Pro SP2).

I am looking into the Antec NSK4400 for the chassis; (thanks megaBgon for the recommedation on the Antec); as well as NEC ND-3550A BK DVD Burner. A floppy is a must as the office workers require one.

Having stated the above, I am looking for a good long lasting system that usues something better than a celeron or sempron cpu. Graphics to be better than the Intel Extreme software subsystem and has at least 512MB ram. Looking at a Hard drive bigger than 40GB would be nice.

Trying to keep the system under $500.00. Any suggestions?

Why would the graphics have to be better than onboard? They aren't going to be gaming, right? They should really see no noticable difference if they really aren't going to be utilizing this office computer for games.

 

[imported_Questar]

Trying to keep the system under $500.00. Any suggestions?

Buy a Dell.

 

[Morpth]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: Morpth
Hi,

I am looking to build a budget Office white box. I already have a Monitor, mouse, keyboard, the OS (Win XP Pro SP2).

I am looking into the Antec NSK4400 for the chassis; (thanks megaBgon for the recommedation on the Antec); as well as NEC ND-3550A BK DVD Burner. A floppy is a must as the office workers require one.

Having stated the above, I am looking for a good long lasting system that usues something better than a celeron or sempron cpu. Graphics to be better than the Intel Extreme software subsystem and has at least 512MB ram. Looking at a Hard drive bigger than 40GB would be nice.

Trying to keep the system under $500.00. Any suggestions?

Why would the graphics have to be better than onboard? They aren't going to be gaming, right? They should really see no noticable difference if they really aren't going to be utilizing this office computer for games.

My mistake. I was trying to say something better than software driven graphics which use shared memory archecture. We have some systems like that now, and its a bear on the applications we use.

Onboard would be fine as long as its an integrated embedded video chipset.

 

[Nocturnal]

I agree. Go with a Dell. I recommend this to any business who asks me what they should buy. You get the support and the warranty of Dell. IIRC the business side is actually taken cared of by the US tech support. I think.

 

[Morpth]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I agree. Go with a Dell. I recommend this to any business who asks me what they should buy. You get the support and the warranty of Dell. IIRC the business side is actually taken cared of by the US tech support. I think.

Normally, I'd agree with you, as we have lots of "off-lease Dell" boxes already, but the DFS group that offers the off-lease are now pushing laptops and that is not what is wanted.

As for brand new, I can't see paying for an OS when I have 35 copies of XP Pro already waiting for a system to put it on.

Lastly, I haven't been able to customize a below $500.00 dell box of the Optiplex level.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

well on the 24th july AMD are slashing prices on the socket 939 single and dual core Athlon 64's

so i reckon you could pick up a 3000 or 3200 or something, some decent value ram, (1gb wont cost you much) a samsung spin point drive (very very quiet drives), some kind of MSI/Asus mobo...they make some decent value products.

considering you have a monitor, keyboard, mouse, OS and case.... filling it with some decent kit for sub $500 should be easy

 

[Slowlearner]

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/...&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=dim31np4&s=bsd 379$

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Morpth

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I agree. Go with a Dell. I recommend this to any business who asks me what they should buy. You get the support and the warranty of Dell. IIRC the business side is actually taken cared of by the US tech support. I think.

Normally, I'd agree with you, as we have lots of "off-lease Dell" boxes already, but the DFS group that offers the off-lease are now pushing laptops and that is not what is wanted.

As for brand new, I can't see paying for an OS when I have 35 copies of XP Pro already waiting for a system to put it on.

Lastly, I haven't been able to customize a below $500.00 dell box of the Optiplex level.

XPS 400 from DellOutlet.com.