Cost of microprocessor relative to Cost of PC?

[Frenchy]

How much does am microprocessor like P4 account for total cost of a desktop PC?

[The Evil Tin Tin]

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[KJY9]

Right on Tin Tin..I'd say monitor or VidCard depending on your choices as well for being the highest costing component. Especially if you're using Flat Panel LCDs

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[gotmonopoly?]

Originally posted by The Evil Tin Tin:
Only a little bit, a P4 ceapest one is like £115 of a total of about £800 or so, the biggest cost in the whole machine is usully the motherboard, normally about £80 to £150, but sometimes the graphics card as well, generally £30 for a TNT 2 or £300 for a ge force 3.Another large cost is the monitor £75 up to like $500 !. So the processor isnt that big an expense but it ranks pretty high in the overall cost of a machine.

Hmm.. usually P4 motherboards are way less expensive than the Processor. I can get a Shuttle AV40 DDR board for around ~$100 whereas the Socket 478 1.7 Ghz P4 is around ~200+. If you wanted a P4 2.0 Ghz, you'd be spending around ~$450 minimum and that right there could be half or a third of your total costs. Depends on the chip.

Depends how high-end you want your other parts to be.

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[jac857]

you could actually make it one of the cheapest things if you were to get say a duron 750 for 25 bucks.

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