Sparker Wrote:Only $500 AUD from my work experience week as part of school <_<
$500 AUD is sure a lot to earn from work experience for 5 days now that I look at it.
Total $510. MSY prices.
- Motherboard - G-B M61PME-S2P - $59
- CPU - Athlon2 x4 620 - $129
- GPU - 1GB ATI Radeon 5750 - $163
- RAM - 4GB Kit (2x2G) DDR2 1066 G.Skill-PQ - $105 (Seriously, memory prices went up heaps or something? This stuff was cheaper when I bought 1yr ago)
- HDD - Seagate 500GB SATA HDD- $54
Just use your old stuff for the rest (case, power supply, monitor, DVD, mouse, keyboard, whatever).
It'll rip up every machine here on EP besides for the enthusiast machines (V1, Hellgiver, and some others I forgot), but they paid 4x as much money as you, so whatever.
G31 is an Intel chipset.
Thought the Phenom II X2 550 was better than the Athlon X2s? Maybe I'm wrong there, dunno.
Ditch the HDD if you're keeping that and perhaps go for DDR2-800 instead of 1066MHz RAM.
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:G31 is an Intel chipset.
Fail at copy-pasting. G-B M61PME-S2P. I did get the pricing correct though.
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Thought the Phenom II X2 550 was better than the Athlon X2s? Maybe I'm wrong there, dunno.
It's not an Athlon X2. The new AthlonII is pretty much like a mini PhenomII.
PhenomII x2 550 » 3.1GHz dual core.
AthlonII x4 620 » 2.6GHz quad core.
AthlonII architecture about 90% the power of PhenomII, or at least that's what I heard.
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Ditch the HDD if you're keeping that and perhaps go for DDR2-800 instead of 1066MHz RAM.
800 only saves you $9 ($96 compared to $105). May as well go 1066.
But yeah, w
tf is up with memory prices.... 1yr ago I bought 4GB of DDR2-800 for $60, now 1 year later it's $96.... Maybe because DD2 started going into decline (you're loosing efficiency of scale) and is only going to get more expensive from now on? (Like how DDR1 costs more than DDR2 a
tm).
Assassinator Wrote:Sparker Wrote:Only $500 AUD from my work experience week as part of school <_<
$500 AUD is sure a lot to earn from work experience for 5 days now that I look at it.
Total $510. MSY prices.- Motherboard - G-B M61PME-S2P - $59
- CPU - Athlon2 x4 620 - $129
- GPU - 1GB ATI Radeon 5750 - $163
- RAM - 4GB Kit (2x2G) DDR2 1066 G.Skill-PQ - $105 (Seriously, memory prices went up heaps or something? This stuff was cheaper when I bought 1yr ago)
- HDD - Seagate 500GB SATA HDD- $54
Just use your old stuff for the rest (case, power supply, monitor, DVD, mouse, keyboard, whatever).
It'll rip up every machine here on EP besides for the enthusiast machines (V1, Hellgiver, and some others I forgot), but they paid 4x as much money as you, so whatever.
Okay, I'll try that for just $500 AUD, thanks.
Assassinator Wrote:800 only saves you $9 ($96 compared to $105). May as well go 1066.
But yeah, wtf is up with memory prices.... 1yr ago I bought 4GB of DDR2-800 for $60, now 1 year later it's $96.... Maybe because DD2 started going into decline (you're loosing efficiency of scale) and is only going to get more expensive from now on? (Like how DDR1 costs more than DDR2 atm).
DDR1 didn't become more expensive, DDR2 just became cheaper.
Prices rarely ever do go up, especially considering that RAM is relatively competitive.
Funny, RAM prices plunged when the AUD crashed. Now that AUD has mostly recovered, it's gone up.
I think optical drives also all went up a while back too.
http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.c...dr2&spos=3
^ Weird, there's ECC memory there, and ECC typically has a huge premium over regular RAM.