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The second budget PC build

Monday, July 25, 2011 at 10:06PM

This passed weekend I went ahead and built the second budget PC (I had the parts sitting at home for quite some time). I went pretty darn well. The seating of the CPU with the heatsink to the Mobo went on real nice and easy. I was impressed with the case, for being a cheap one its pretty user friendly. Here is the parts list:

-Gigabyte GA-G41MT-S2P http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11830BD5799&vpn=GA-G41MT-S2P&manufacture=GIGABYTE

-Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=1220152042K&vpn=BX80580Q8400&manufacture=INTEL

-G.SKILL Ripjaws X Memory http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=15380BD8041&vpn=F3-10666CL9D-4GBXL&manufacture=G.SKILL

-Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition 64BIT DVD OEM http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=12850SW7181&vpn=FQC-00765&manufacture=MICROSOFT

-Liteon IHAS124 24X DVD Writer SATA Black OEM http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=12640DR2162&vpn=IHAS124-04&manufacture=LITEON

-Apex PC-375 Mid Tower ATX Case Black http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=22510AC5754&vpn=PC-375&manufacture=Apex%20Computer

-Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=14120DR4977&vpn=ST3500413AS&manufacture=SEAGATE

Here is a picture of this build.

Luke |

One PC build finished.

Monday, July 18, 2011 at 10:57PM

I recently built the first budget PC that was mentioned a few posts back. It took me a while to finally get going on it. I have been busy with other stuff such as modding my Camaro which I will post later. Oh I also went to Calgary for the Calgary Expo which I missed the oppurtunity to post what I saw there and some awesome times I had there. (It would not look good on the site to post now what I saw with the date being so way off) Well back on the PC I built. The parts that I bought for this build are:

-ASUS A8M2N-LA HP COMPAQ NodusM GEForce AM2 MOTHERBOARD

-AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.5GHz

-Antec Sonata III 500 Computer Case

-2x Kingston 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 RAM Chips

-Liteon IHAS124 24X DVD Writer

I built this computer for my brother, who needed one that was modern but one the budget and can still be usable for his for his older games and finally be able to upgrade it later on.

Luke |