Budget Quad Cruncher

[darckeen]

Looking to build a cheap box for number crunching with a multicore app. This is what I was thinking:

AMD 940
Gigabyte Mobo
4G DDR2 800
ATI 4350
WD 320G
DVD Burner
Corsair 400w

 

[aford10]

what is your budget?

To best utilize that cpu, you should get a board that supports DDR3 RAM. Since that board doesn't support it, it lacks the future upgradability.

That's a pretty low end video card, I trust this isn't for gaming.?

 

[Outlander_04]

This mb has onboard gfx
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128384

normally that would suck but AMD'd 790g series chipsets are powerful enough to play crysis at low resolutions so they will be enough for any no gaming build .
Saves you buying a graphics card , and a few dollars

This ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220335
is cheaper [after rebate ]and faster

 

[batuchka]

+1 quad on IGP My version