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Buying fast/performance parts but skimping on the monitor is something I've never understood. It's like buying a $200 dollar DVD player to play on a 32 inch TV instead of getting a $50-75 dollar DVD player to play on a 40 inch TV.
Maybe it's just me... but 19 is WAY too small.. esp. with a lot of the cheapo 20"+ TN panel LCDs at crazy low prices. Microcenter has a bunch of LCD deals if you have to get it at a B&M. If I was your customer and had a fixed amount to spend on a PC, i'd personally rather be staring at a larger LCD.
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Anyway, that was a bit OT.
Build looks good. Good board, decent parts, etc. although I personally would spring the extra 60-70 dollars for the Q9550. I can understand the older CPU though since they're only 99 dollars now.
Get the gigabyte EP45-UDP3, it's a much better board and doesn't cost you much more.
Dunno which board that is, Couldn't find it anywhere.
As for the monitor, its more then plenty for Quickbooks and Excel work. I'll let you know when he needs a nice widescreen for something other then that, and quadcore.
As for the monitor, its more then plenty for Quickbooks and Excel work.
So does a $50 Celeron, but we're going bang for buck here right?
Microcenter has a 19" Widescreen Acer LCD retailing for $139 with $40 Reb (Cheapest 19er i saw on their site). If you put an extra $20, you could go to their 23" LCD.
I'm just saying in terms of value, you will get a whole lot more by putting an extra $20-50 into a larger screen than almost anything else on the computer (provided you are not hitting CPU/RAM bottlenecks with your apps).
If the customer uses his computer 8 hours a day, spends 4 hours doing work (Outlook/excel/etc), 3 hours on the internet/webpages/etc., and 1 hour playing games/apps/whatever for example. 7 out of the 8 hours of the day the dollars spent on the extra performance are not even used. You may shave a few seconds here and there, and apps may be a little snappier, but your experience is not much different than someone running a Celeron with 2GB of RAM (provided it's not yet filled w/ junk/malware/etc). If you have a larger LCD though, that $20 to upgrade in resolution/screen size is something you can perceive 100% of the time you use the computer.
So does a $50 Celeron, but we're going bang for buck here right?
Microcenter has a 19" Widescreen Acer LCD retailing for $139 with $40 Reb (Cheapest 19er i saw on their site). If you put an extra $20, you could go to their 23" LCD.
I'm just saying in terms of value, you will get a whole lot more by putting an extra $20-50 into a larger screen than almost anything else on the computer (provided you are not hitting CPU/RAM bottlenecks with your apps).
If the customer uses his computer 8 hours a day, spends 4 hours doing work (Outlook/excel/etc), 3 hours on the internet/webpages/etc., and 1 hour playing games/apps/whatever for example. 7 out of the 8 hours of the day the dollars spent on the extra performance are not even used. You may shave a few seconds here and there, and apps may be a little snappier, but your experience is not much different than someone running a Celeron with 2GB of RAM (provided it's not yet filled w/ junk/malware/etc). If you have a larger LCD though, that $20 to upgrade in resolution/screen size is something you can perceive 100% of the time you use the computer.
Customer decided to go with 2 $60 used 19" displays.
Super Fast Budget Computer
