Yogi, most expensive components of a PC.
It depends on what kind of PC you're looking at, low end or high end.
Take a look at a guesstimate by PX for a high end (consumer) PC:
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To: Mark Oliver (322 )
From: Pierre-X
Thursday, May 7 1998 10:32PM ET
Reply # of 390
Re: Your Dell power-box
Here's how I spec that machine:
$900 400 P-II
$100 64 MB SDRAM
$300 8.4 GB
$150 AGP 4 MB 3D vid
$100 Zip
$60 Win95
$140 +all the misc doodads
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$1750
I guess the difference from Dell is $150 labor for assembly and software installing, $200
in imputed support cost ... the other $400 goes in Michael Dell's pocket <g>.
I have the numbers because I was planning to build one for myself. Decided against it
since I could build a 333 Mhz machine for HALF the part cost (albeit without the 100
Mhz front-bus).
God bless,
PX
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PX left off the monitor, because he can read a PC without one. If you're somebody like me (who needs all the help he can get), a 17" monitor would cost less than the 400 MHz PII CPU but more than any of the other components.
So for this model PC, relative cost is (in descending order):
CPU
Monitor
Hard drive
Miscellaneous parts
But if you go for a low end PC, the relative costs can change quite a bit. Remember, you can get a great PC for less than $1000, which would have cost $3500-$5000+ a year or two ago.
Regards,
Larry |
