[tech] Catfish replacement - Cowfish

Pradyumn Vij pradyumn.vij at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 05:41:06 WST 2014


Running these parts and prices past anyone who cares for Committee to
approve on a new desktop for the clubroom.

$1000 limit
Build recommendation
*MSY prices, competition is almost $300 - 400 more expensive*

*CPU*
Intel 4460 Core i5-4460 3.2GHz 6MB LGA1150    $201

*Motherboard*
Asus H97M-E  $115
Gigabyte H97M-Gaming-3 $129

*RAM *(whatever is available with a lifetime warranty)
Kingston Hyper X Fury 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3 1600MHz HX313C10FK2/8 $95
G.Skill 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3 1600MHz - F3-1600C9D-8GAO $98

*Graphics Card *(only need 2gb as not playing on high res.)
EVGA GTX760 2gb SC ACX $299
Asus GeForce GTX760 OC 2gb $295
Gainward GTX760 2gb              $267

*HDD*
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB   $63
Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB   $92

*Case *(assuming no extra case fans need to be bought)
Coolermaster K282 if in stock $49
Thermaltake Versa H25 $49
Coolermaster K350 $53

*Power Supply*
Corsair CS550M $115
Corsair CS650M $135 (unlikely option)

*Optical Drive*
LiteOn IHAS124-OEM Black $17


*Luxury Item?*

*SSD *(not sure if I should have budgeted for this, will draw money away
from graphics card, would fit in fine if we had the 750 except it's a trash
card).
Samsung 840 Evo 250gb     $155

 If we get the cheap Gainward 760, the 1 tb HDD this will be $77 extra.


Regards
[VIJ]
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