[POLL] What's the most you would pay for a budget SLI system?

[ChampionLLY]

Originally Posted by Olle P

Okay, here's a "cheapish" rig, complete (excluding software), picking all components from one store:

Motherboard: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe nForce 570 SLI MCP 4DDR2-DIMM 3PCI 4PCIe SATA Raid Audio DUAL GB-LAN Firewire Socket AM2 ATX
CPU (with box cooler): AMD Athlon64 "Orleans" 3800+ 2.4GHz 512Kb Boxed (with cpu-cooler!) Socket AM2 (to be upgraded to Athlon64X2 4600+ or better later on.)
Case & PSU: Black Thunder Miditower Black 400W ATX
RAM: Kingston KVR667D2N5/512 2x512MB (tot 1GB) DDR2 PC5300 240pin 667MHz
HDD: Hitachi Deskstar 0A31637 T7K250 160Gb 7200rpm 8Mb 8.5ms SATA2
Floppy drive: Sony, black (119 SEK)
DVD-burner: Samsung SH-W163A, black
Graphics cards: 2x Leadtek WinFast GeForce 7600GT
Keyboard: Simple standard, black, 49 SEK
Mouse: Razer Diamondback Precision Gaming Mouse Salamander Red
Speakers: Creative Speaker SBS380 2.1
Monitor: AMW M179D 17" TFT Silver/Svart Analog&DVI 8ms

Total price: 11,138 SEK (including 25% sales tax), which should boil down to roughly equivalent with 4,000 RM sales price in Malaysia.

/Olle

wtf... wad country charges 25% sales tax...

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Olle P

Please define what should be part of the "system".
Mobo, RAM, CPU, PSU, HDD, DVD-burner, case, monitor, speakers, mouse, keyboard, floppy drive, ...?

Oh, and what's the future buget for upgrades? I could go pretty low initially, with planned upgrades fairly soon after.

/Olle

It should be a complete system.

I was thinking of around USD 1.2K (~RM 4440).

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Olle P

Okay, here's a "cheapish" rig, complete (excluding software), picking all components from one store:

Motherboard: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe nForce 570 SLI MCP 4DDR2-DIMM 3PCI 4PCIe SATA Raid Audio DUAL GB-LAN Firewire Socket AM2 ATX
CPU (with box cooler): AMD Athlon64 "Orleans" 3800+ 2.4GHz 512Kb Boxed (with cpu-cooler!) Socket AM2 (to be upgraded to Athlon64X2 4600+ or better later on.)
Case & PSU: Black Thunder Miditower Black 400W ATX
RAM: Kingston KVR667D2N5/512 2x512MB (tot 1GB) DDR2 PC5300 240pin 667MHz
HDD: Hitachi Deskstar 0A31637 T7K250 160Gb 7200rpm 8Mb 8.5ms SATA2
Floppy drive: Sony, black (119 SEK)
DVD-burner: Samsung SH-W163A, black
Graphics cards: 2x Leadtek WinFast GeForce 7600GT
Keyboard: Simple standard, black, 49 SEK
Mouse: Razer Diamondback Precision Gaming Mouse Salamander Red
Speakers: Creative Speaker SBS380 2.1
Monitor: AMW M179D 17" TFT Silver/Svart Analog&DVI 8ms

Total price: 11,138 SEK (including 25% sales tax), which should boil down to roughly equivalent with 4,000 RM sales price in Malaysia.

/Olle

Wow.. That's still pretty cheap. Cheaper than what I could find on Pricegrabber...

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by ChampionLLY

"SLI system" as in mobo+2 gfx only?
or includes everything like psu, cpu, ram, mouse, kb, speakers, soundcard, hsf etc...

It should include everything.

[Olle P]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

It should include everything.

Then I think the poll options are somewhat skewed, especially if using double GF 7600GT is mandatory and should be included in that price.
The lowest bid should read <4,000 RM, because it's difficult to get much lower, and then you up from that.

Originally Posted by ChampionLLY

wad country charges 25% sales tax.

Sweden!

/Olle

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Olle P

Then I think the poll options are somewhat skewed, especially if using double GF 7600GT is mandatory and should be included in that price.
The lowest bid should read <4,000 RM, because it's difficult to get much lower, and then you up from that.

Sweden!

/Olle

Yeah, it's damn hard to get below RM 4K (USD 1081).

Especially hard if Conroe is part of the package.

[ianho]

Originally Posted by Olle P

Then I think the poll options are somewhat skewed, especially if using double GF 7600GT is mandatory and should be included in that price.
The lowest bid should read <4,000 RM, because it's difficult to get much lower, and then you up from that.

Sweden!

/Olle

Holy cow! 25% tax in Sweden. U really shud come to Malaysia or Singapore for a holiday. The PCs here r tax free.