Make Me A PC Challenge (Dont Miss)

Budget 10 K FLAT !!!!

All parts have to be new ...

Lets C who can come up with the best PC in this price constraint.

PS: inspiration - 10 years ago, an uncle said - beta, you will get very cheap PC's in the future ... and i didnt see the price going nowhere. A decent rig then and now still costs 40-50K

Dude,you might get a very cripppled PC at that price. What will you do with such a PC ?

Psst, you joined in in 2003 and you got 9 posts... Thats pretty difficult to understand

14" CRT moniter-samsung
intel 845 chipset
CD ROM- samsung
keyboard+mouse- samsung or Intex
40 GB seagate/samsung hard disk
NO floppy drive
local 2.0 speaker

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Available for 10 K ? what abt the processor ?

CPU Intel Celeron 2.8 GHz 336 Processor
Mother Boards anything below 2K
40GB HDD, CDR, 14 inch CRT, 256MB RAM, cheap Cabinet, Frontech KB, Mouse etc. i think this will come within 10K +VAT :grin:

Intel Celeron D - Rs1500
Mercury 845 - Rs2050
40GB - Rs 1900
CDROM - Rs 700
Monitor - Rs 3500
256MB Ram - Rs600
Mouse - Rs 50
Keyboard - Rs 100
Cabinet - Rs900
DESI Speaker - Rs 200

Total - 11500 DAMN

K

cel 1.2 GHz 1300/-
Intel 810E Mother Board 1500/-
256 MB PC133 1050/-
TECH - COM CABINET 950/-
seagate 40GB HDD 1650/-
samsung cdr 650/-
samsung FDD 275/-
14" monitor 2400/-
adcom kbd+mouse 200/-

Isnt HCL already selling a sub- 10,000 PC, the one with the VIA processor.

Yes. Also Amar PC in case you are from west bengal.

A

Consider a PC based on VIA C3 processor and mobo..

M

All right lets make one:
Get all the above config except:
the cabinet: Make a wall crawler (Just google it I read about it somewhere)
the speaker: get a simple earphone approx Rs.10

the HDD: go to Kenya or someplace where they still sell 4GB HDD.

the motherboard: get a P1 and mobo which supports, should be available in all leading stores.

and what else... yeah the monitor.... I think black and white is still manufactured somewhere.
Total ~5.21 (Kenyan Dollar)

Sorry about total sarcasm. Couldn't help it. Up the limit by atleast 5K. Then help is available everywhere.