Sergei Mutovkin’s Rumbling Mumbling

Gone are the days when you had to spend thousands of dollars on a descent PC, no longer do you need to rob the bank to get a new LCD monitor. So two weeks ago on a beautiful Saturday morning a friend of mine Alesha poped up at my place to enjoy one of the most interesting things geeks can do - assemble a new PC. A few days prior to the event we went to the nearest CanadaComputers store and got most of the needed parts (the rest are from Etobicoke TigerDirect store). So what is the modern budget PC with a price less then $1000 Canadian?

Case: Antec Sontata II with 450W “Silent” Power supply [129$]
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 65Watt 3800+ Socket AM2 [185$]
RAM: 2Gb (2×1024) OCZ Gold DDRII 667Mhz RAM [184$]
Motherboard: MSI K9N Platinum (nVidia 570 Chipset) [117$]
Video: eVGA GeForce 7600GT KO 256Mb PCI-E [185$]
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320Gb SATA2 [119$]
DVD: Lite-On SHM-165H6S 16x DVD-/+RW DVD-RAM LightScribe [54$]

All this well under $1000 Canadian Dollars or to be exact $973!

A truly silent monster I wish I had myself, though personally I still prefer the Apple iMac Core 2 Duo 20-24″ beauty.