Buyer's Guide: High-End SOHO - August 2002
by Matthew Witheiler on August 2, 2002 1:19 AM EST- Posted in
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Summary
High-end SOHO |
Component
|
Price
|
CPU
|
Pentium
4 2.4B GHz
|
$345
|
Motherboard
|
Gigabyte
8IEXP
|
$130
|
Memory
|
512MB
Mushkin Basic PC2100 DDR SDRAM
|
$115
|
Video
Card
|
Matrox
G550
|
$91
|
Monitor
|
Sony
StylePro CPD-E540
|
$550
|
Case
|
Antec
Performance Plus PLUS1080
|
$145
|
Sound
Card
|
Integrated
Creative CT5880E
|
$0
|
Speakers
|
Logitech
Z-540
|
$57
|
Ethernet
|
Integrated
Intel Pro/100 VE
|
$0
|
Hard
Drive
|
2
x Maxtor DiamondMax D740X 6L040J2 40GB
|
$130
|
Hard
Drive Controller
|
HighPoint
RocketRAID 404
|
$100
|
CD-ROM
|
None
|
$0
|
CD-RW
|
Plextor
PX-W4012TA/SW 40x12x40
|
$125
|
Bottom
line
|
|
$1788
|
There you have it, the high-end SOHO system recommendation for the month of August. We can promise you that with the system above speed will not be an issue. We were also quite pleased that we were able to get such a high performing system to be over $500 less expensive than our previous high-end SOHO system recommendation made in June of 2001. Although our processor is more pricey than the one we chose last year, the motherboard, video card, monitor, case, hard drives, and CD-RW drive have all fallen in price.
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