Business System Suggestions

[zx6riz]

I need to build four workstations for my business. The systems will not be used for gaming but will be used for business applications, photoshop, very minor video editing, and other things of that nature. Trying to keep the price in th $600 ranage per box without monitors. Any suggestions. I have been running all AMD up till now but not sure if I should go to Intel.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: zx6riz
I need to build four workstations for my business. The systems will not be used for gaming but will be used for business applications, photoshop, very minor video editing, and other things of that nature. Trying to keep the price in th $600 ranage per box without monitors. Any suggestions. I have been running all AMD up till now but not sure if I should go to Intel.

$600 for hardware only, no software, no operating system?

What I would aim for, and you can price it:

Antec Sonata case & 380W TruePower PSU

Retail Athlon64 3000+

Asus K8S-MX (onboard video and audio, with AGP 8X slot for upgrading)

One 512MB Corsair ValueSelect PC3200 memory module (can add a second 512MB or 1GB module later)

80GB Seagate 7200.7 SATA hard drive (board has only one IDE channel, so use it for the optical drive probably)

Optical drive of choice, maybe an NEC dual-layer DVD burner?

Throw in a Firewire card if needed (board has two PCI slots and a PCI-Express slot).


That's a quiet, good-quality kit that you can expand on, and expect it to hold up over the long haul (not cheap junky PSU or bottom-line mobo). The PSU, motherboard and CPU have 3-year warranties, 5-year on the hard drive and lifetime on the memory.

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