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A couple of weeks ago I created a parts list for a custom PC that cost just under $1,000, including an LCD monitor, and a friend of mine told me I should bring the budget down more. So, after a bit of rearranging and reselecting my parts, I formed a $500 PC. Please note that this PC, unlike the $1,000 one, does not include a monitor; I simply didn’t have that much money to spend, and I figured you most likely already have one. Same rules apply as my other article: all prices are from Newegg.com, before tax and shipping but after mail-in rebates. So let’s get started:

CPU: Intel Pentium D 805

This processor is currently the cheapest dual-core processor on the market. For that matter, it’s only around $15 more than it’s single-core counterpart. So I figured, why not? It runs at 2.66GHz but has been reported to overclock like crazy, many bringing it up to around 3.4 or 3.6GHz. At the price you’re paying, you can’t really beat that. And even if you don’t feel like you need a dual-core now, the theme of this article is to save money, and buying a dual-core processor saves you money in the long run by keeping you from upgrading longer.

Price: $96.00

Motherboard: ECS RT410L/800-M 2.0

Running on an ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 chipset, this motherboard is really a bargain. It has all the essentials, like a PCI-Express x16 slot, two DDR2 slots, ports for 4 IDE and 4 SATA drives, and built-in audio, LAN, and even video, in case your video card breaks and has to be replaced. (This is a micro-ATX case, which probably won’t matter to you at all, since it’ll fit in a standard sized case. It’s just less expensive because it’s smaller.)

Price: $49.99

Memory: G.SKILL 1GB DDR2-667 (PC2-5400) dual-channel pair

It’s the highest speed the motherboard supports, at a decent latency (timings are 4-4-4-12), and enough to play games. Not much more to say. Dual-channel also makes it faster by doubling the interface bandwidth.

Price: $89.99

Graphics: SAPPHIRE Radeon X850XT 256MB

I chose the video card last, after all the other parts, so I could spend the most money possible on it. The top video cards today could actually be more than my entire budget, so you can see my motives. Anyway, this is a fairly well-performing card, and better than NVIDIA’s products of comparable price. It should be able to play almost any game you can throw at it, and at decent framerates for the price. It has 16 pixel pipelines and a 256-bit memory interface, which is quite good.

Price: $115.99

Hard Drive: Samsung 250GB SATA

A standard SATA hard drive, with 250GB of storage and a 7200RPM spin speed. It’s compatible with the SATA2 standard, so if you have a SATA2-supporting motherboard (which this setup doesn’t) you’ll have an interface bandwidth of 300MB/s. And 250GB should be enough to store plenty of data.

Price: $69.99

DVD Burner: BenQ Dual-Format, Dual-Layer Drive

The cheapest dual-layer DVD burner on the site. These days they’re so inexpensive that every new computer should have one. They’re practically giving them away. This one covers all the standard formats, with 16X DVD+R and DVD-R write speeds, 8X for DVD+R DL, and 4X for DVD-R DL.

Price: $27.25

Case: Broadway Com Corp 82-4HL Mid Tower w/500W Power Supply

Just your standard case and power supply, but it does have a couple of frills. It has side air vents for the CPU and video cards, plus a screen on the front with time and temperature information, along with a few other things. Inside the case you’ll find room for 4 5.25″ devices and 6 3.5″ devices, and a 120mm fan in the back, which will make less noise than a smaller one. The power supply is adequate and will be able to power the PC with these parts.

Price: $46.99

And there you have it. The final price of all parts is $496.20. And just think how much this would cost you from Dell, HP, or any other computer manufacturer. (Yes, I know there are other costs involved, the biggest one being Windows, for which a full-version Home Edition license costs you $200 or so, but it’s still quite comparable, and you have a lot more versatility with your own Windows CD than with a pre-installed version on a computer.)