Building a computer for my schooling

[Eric Angolo]

I have $800 to build a computer for my schooling, what kind of configuration should I go for with the , Mother board, CPU, Power supply, RAM, Hard drive, Optical drive, Video card, sound card, Network card, monitor, keyboard, mouse, Windows 7, Office, and any additional items.

 

[HPrometheus]

Well since you're in the HP forum, I assume you're looking for an HP solution.

Does the $800 go to a monitor as well? If so here's a computer you could benefit from:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2300 quad-core processor [2.8GHz, 6MB cache]
FREE UPGRADE! 6GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM [3 DIMMs] from 4GB
FREE UPGRADE! 1TB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive from 750GB
1GB DDR3 NVIDIA GeForce 405 [DVI, HDMI, VGA adapter]
Beats Audio (tm) -- integrated studio quality sound

only $699 as of 4/20/2011 here it is http://goo.gl/iU9io

 

[HPrometheus]

It'll be even less if you use a student discount which you can get here=> http://hp.force.com/external/hpacademy?client=hpacademy&schoolSearchPin=AP8079&jumpid=&aoid=92787