So, I was telling my wife how great it would be to build a second PC, five years after building the last one, to run Windows 7. I thought she'd tell me that XP is fine and that we don't need to throw money at a new PC, but she told me to draw up an estimate. I did, and here it is:
Tower alone: $566.92
Tower plus Win7 Home Premium OEM: $676.91
Tower plus Win7 Ultimate OEM: $756.91
These aren't offers for anyone; I'm certainly not spamming. These are raw parts cost. No labor charge because I'd be doing the work. I built my current system, I can build another one. Ironically, this will cost about $400 less than my last one.
What the Tower includes:
Case and Power Supply: $89.99
Sunbeam Transformer w/450W PSU
Motherboard: $79.99
GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770
CPU: $142.99
AMD Phenom II X4 810 2.6GHz Socket AM3
RAM: $109.99
CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
GPU: $69.99
GIGABYTE GV-R467D3-512I Radeon HD 4670 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
HDD: $34.99
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD800AAJS 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
(I have a 750GB SATA drive in my current box that would move to the new one to keep the lil' 80GB company.)
DVD Burner: $28.99
LITE-ON Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW SATA CD/DVD Burner
Memory card reader: $9.99
SUPER TALENT INTAIN1MCR All-in-one Card Reader
Thoughts? Suggestions? Recommendations? Most likely I'll be buying Win7 Home Premium OEM to go on it. (I haven't given up on Linux; in fact I want to turn my current computer into a dedicated Linux box.)
And again, this ain't spam, there aren't any referral links, and Newegg isn't giving me anything for posting them. It's just who I choose to shop with, myself. I'm not encouraging anybody to click those links (they're just for reference, I think the titles I used tell people enough about 'em) but rather fishing for recommendations.