Dual core is all the rage now, and with AMD's entry-level dual core processor killing the competition, one can buy one heck of a machine for quite a reasonable price, when you think about it.
| part | make & model | US price | US price in ILS | IL price in ILS | markup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpu | AMD Athlon 64 X2 (939) 3800+ 2x512KB | 365 | 1678.21 | 2250 | 34.07% |
| mobo | MSI nForce4 Ultra (939) K8N Neo4 Platinum | 125 | 574.73 | 840 | 46.16% |
| ram | OCZ/Corsair/Kingston 2x512MB PC3200 CL2.5 | 90 | 413.81 | 780 | 88.49% |
| video | XFX GeForce 6600GT 128MB | 150 | 689.68 | 1050 | 52.25% |
| hdd | Western Digital SATA 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Caviar SE | 85 | 390.82 | 470 | 20.26% |
| total | 815 | 3747.24 | 5390 | 43.84% | |
| exchange rate | USD to ILS | 1 | 4.59784 | ||
Prices in US are rounded up and include shipping & handling, and don't use rebates (20$ and 25$ mail-in rebates are available). Prices in Israel include 17% VAT.
I chose AMD over Intel because of price/performance, but if Intel's hardware virtualization technology lives up to its hype (together with the rest of the cool new stuff that comes in the designed-in-Israel due-in 2006 next-gen Intel chips), I might reconsider.
Personally, I'd want to get a motherboard with integrated graphics (a GeForce 6150 + nForce 430 based solution sounds promising) because those 1000NIS on a a video card I'm not going to use are bugging me.
Compared to last time I did this, I've upgraded to CL2.5 RAM and swapped a WD for the Seagate hard drive because of availability issues.
We are still being ripped off on RAM.
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