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How to Build Your Own PC - Save A Buck And Learn A Lot 9 Chapter 1: Purchasing Components 9 Will I Save Money by Building My Own System? |
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Total System Cost
The total cost of the system built in this book was $975.15. The costs break down by component as shown in Table 1.
Component |
Cost |
From Insight Components: |
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Enlight en-7255 mid-tower case with ATX 360w power supply |
$74.28 |
Asus a7v333-x Socket A mainboard with audio & LAN |
$89.99 |
AMD 2000+ Athlon XP CPU |
$79.99 |
Asus v7100 Pro Geforce2 64MB 4x AGP video card |
$44.99 |
Floppy Drive |
$10.99 |
Windows XP Home Edition OEM |
$92.99 |
From Best Buy: |
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Creative Labs Speakers |
$19.99 |
Kingston Value RAM 512 MB PC2700 DDR RAM |
$39.99 |
80 GB 7200 RPM Western Digital Hard Drive |
$59.99 |
Verbatim 52x24x52 CD-RW Drive |
$14.99 |
ViewSonic A70f+ CRT Monitor |
$149.99 |
U.S. Robotics 56K V.92 Internal Modem |
$79.99 |
From Amazon.com: |
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Red Hat Linux 9.0 Personal |
$36.99 |
Upgrades (BestBuy.com): |
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Hewlett-Packard 300I Internal DVD+RW Drive |
$179.99 |
Scrounged From Existing PCs: |
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Keyboard & Mouse |
$0.00 |
Total System Cost: |
$975.15 |
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