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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Do you or any of the parents/students/mentors/anyone have experience building your own machines?
You may be able to build a machine with better specs if you do it yourself. I know I put together my CAD machine for ~$1400 but $500 of that was dropped on my hard drives (it doubles as a media server). The only thing that does not include was a copy of Windows (provided through MSDNAA for me). It is a lot of extra work but it does save money.
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This is the most important question in the thread. I just made a Newegg shopping cart for a friend that is $800 but a ridiculously high powered rig, so if you are not adverse to assembling it yourself (or if you have team members who could, it's about as easy as Legos, really), I recommend putting it together yourself.
If you would like, I'll post the Newegg shopping cart here.
1.5tb hard drive
4gb DDR3 ram
HD 5830 graphics card
Antec 900 case
650w Antec TP power supply
Asus motherboard, with USB3
AMD Quad core (Athlon II X4) 2.9ghz processor