Needing a budget build

[inline 6]

I need another PC for the garage, this machine will be living in the garage full time and will have to endure the heat. I have a heater for the winter but in the summer its just whatever the ambient is. I dont need much of a PC but it cant be a total turd. I am looking to either buy or build something quadcore @ around 3ghz and has at least 8gb of ram. Also some sort of graphics card that is above any stock on board chipset. I haev priced one out on newegg and am already over $300. This is about my max for this. Any suggestions or anyone have something for sale?

[abecx]

What do you plan on using it for?

This mini-pc's are quite powerful and on-cpu intel video cards aren't that bad.

[inline 6]

I just need it to run a cnc router, and a couple of drafting programs. I have done this in the past with a pos dual core 2ghz dell with 2gb of ram and a 256k aftermarket video card. I don't need much machine but I dont want that again either.

[big_tiger]

Intel NUCs with a three year warranty is awesome.

[big_tiger]

And you can annoy your friends with the box the NUC comes in too.

[roliath]

And you can annoy your friends with the box the NUC comes in too.

i've got about 30 of those sensors at my desk from those damn boxes.

[inline 6]

Those little things look awesome. I am up around $500 worth of shit in my cart building a decent machine.

[big_tiger]

i've got about 30 of those sensors at my desk from those damn boxes.

I would mount those things on every drawer, and hutch on someone's desk.

[Counterfiend]

Goodwill Computer Works.

Can pick up a PC that will do all you need for $87 bucks.

[03mustangdude]

checked slickdeals.net ? some of the dell outlet deals would be perfect for purpose and can be had for 300-400.

[inline 6]

Damn, I just plunked down $540 at new egg. I needed something decent. I have a beater PC that would have done the job but when a customer is going to be around I don't want a slow POS taking up time or making me look bad. I can do a good enough job of that myself, I don't need any help.

Here is the guts of it, how did I do?

VIDEO CARD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121853
MOBO: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131873
MEMORY: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231455
PROCESSOR: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819113392
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147371

[abecx]

Should have just got a NUC with an SSD.

That stuff looks fine.

[inline 6]

I need a machine that I can add a pci card to db25 parallel port. It can not be one of the usb adapters either.

[abecx]

You can convert USB to pretty much any pin in / pin out pattern. The signals are done via software. The only advantage to having a PCI based parallel port would be hard interrupt signals which would be transparent to the devices communicating.

What type of CNC router is it? I've seen a lot of videos of CNC machines running on arduino's and other small form factor GPIO's which would be no different than a USB based DB25 connector.

I don't want make this sound like an argument, I just want to educate myself if I am wrong.

[FastFord19]

I have an HP 6200 pro, I5 3.1ghz with 8gb ram (16gb max) with a cheap Asus 1gb video card I would sell for $250.