Since this is now done, I will try and put up the cost of the whole system and see if I could fit it within budget. I will put up the purchases of the peripherals and monitors separately.
Congrats Sam... Excellent Job ! Looks great and you did a terrific pic layout of the build. Rewarding to learn it, assemble it, work from the new machine. Very rewarding
Great job. I look forward to you posting all the parts, and the costs. I am thinking of building again. I'm pretty sure I can buy a prebuild cheaper, but I enjoyed building the last 3 or 4 years ago.
Since WF, clarified SATA II and SATA III, I feel more inclined to post the SATA III drives. This is an OCZ and comes at a reasonable price of $60 for 60GB. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227728 <img src="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3298125.png">
@ Sam Morgan...Congratulations on completing your build, Very Good job on the pics on your build! I know you must be feeling Good about this, now that it is completed. by the way about what you said about trying to decide on what components to put together for a build was Exactly what i have been going through, and i can see by what you were saying, you went through the same thing. i will just slow down and take my time on this build for now till i can decide on everything, for me it's overload for a newbie in this area
@ TIKITRADER...since yesterday there have been 11 pages added to this Thread , Very Good info you have posted relating to PCI technologies, i will be studying on what you have posted. Thanks for the education.