My Tsunami Dream Computer Case

by tictacbandit
(new york)

Decided to build a new PC after chugging along with a store bought e-machines pile. Got some advice from friends and started shopping, had a budget of about 800 max in mind and started on some wholesale sites, here are my parts:

ThermalTake Tsunami Dream with 400w PSU case
Asus K8N-E Deluxe ATX motherboard
Amd Athlon 64 3000+ 2.1 ghz Processor
2-1gb Corsair pc3200 DDR Ram memory
2x Western Digital "Raptor" 74gb(each)SATA Hard drives
Lightscribe DVD burner drive


Got a bundle with the case and fan for $85
Motherboard cost about $120
About same for the Processor $140
RAM was about $60
Each Hard drive was $110
DVD burner was $65
Legitimate Windows was $120

Which brought me to $810! just over budget.

I built that system about 4 years ago so you can build the same PC for hundreds less, I think I repriced everything to about 400 dollars. Have taken out one of the hard drives, SATA confuses the heck out of me so I now stick with single SATA drives or strictly IDE drives, now have one raptor HD and a western digital 110 gb IDE secondary drive for all my media files.

I keep building budget PC's for friends and you learn alot, if any advice I can give is to start small, bundle parts if possible and know what you want.

Build a socket 478 PC, you can get motherboards for 20-80 dollars and processors for about the same, typically around 1.6ghz-2.4 ghz, pentium 4. Grab a microATX and get a tower with a 400 watt PSU on ebay for around 30 bucks, they are easy PC's to build and learn alot without breaking the bank, just built a full system for 200 dollars.