Budget System

System A

Intel core 2 duo E4700(2.60GHz) & MSI P35 NEO2-FR - $409

Kingston DDR2-800 1GB - $38

ASUS GF EN8500GT 512MB DDR2 -$99

Western Digital 500GB - $135

LG or Samsung SATA 20X DVD Rewriter - $42

Cooler Master 550W - $99

Cooler Master Centurion 5 - $69

Total- $8XX

System B

Intel core 2 duo E4700(2.60GHz) & ASUS P5GC-MX 945G - $319

Kingston DDR2-667 2GB - $65

ASUS GF EN8500GT 512MB DDR2 -$99

Seagate 320GB - $99

LG or Samsung SATA 20X DVD Rewriter - $42

Cooler Master 550W - $99

Cooler Master Centurion 5 - $69

Total - $7XX

Mid-End System

System A

Intel core 2 duo E8400(3.0GHz) & MSI P35 NEO2-FR - $507

Kingston DDR2-800 2GB - $75

ASUS GF EN8800GT 512MB DDR3 - $329

Western Digital 500GB - $135

LG or Samsung SATA 20X DVD Rewriter - $42

Cooler Master RealPro 750W - $250

Cooler Master Centurion 5 - $69

Total 14XX

System B

Intel core 2 duo E8200(2.66GHz) & MSI P35 NEO2-FR - $469

Kingston DDR2-800 2GB - $75

ASUS GF EN8600GT 256MB DDR3 -$115

Western Digital 500GB - $135

LG or Samsung SATA 20X DVD Rewriter - $42

Cooler Master RealPro 550W - $159

Cooler Master Centurion 5 - $69

Total- $10XX

High-End System

System A

Intel quad core 2.66 & ASUS striker II formula - $1076

Kingston DDR2-800 4GB(2x2GB) - $150

Dual Xpertvision 9800GTX - $800

Western Digital 500GB - $135

LG or Samsung SATA 20X DVD Rewriter - $42

ANTEC QUATTRO 1000W ATX PSU - $399

Cooler Master Stacker 832 W/side window - $368

Total - $2XXX


System B

Intel core 2 duo E8400(3.0GHz) & MSI P7N SLI Platinum - $605

Kingston DDR2-800 4GB(2x2GB) - $150

MSI GF NX8800GT 512MB OC - $345

Western Digital 500GB - $135

LG or Samsung SATA 20X DVD Rewriter - $42

Cooler Master RealPro 750W - $250

Cooler Master Stacker 832 W/side window - $368

Total- $18XX

Firewall software (Freeware)

Sygate Personal Firewall










Description:

The software provides best of breed security in a user friendly interface, protecting the PC from hackers, Trojans and DoS attacks. It is a personal firewall to offer protection from malicious code intrusions.

Duration: Free

Windows: 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003

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Firewall software (Freeware)

ZoneAlarm

Description:

The software provides essential protection for Internet users. It gives the user control over the door to the computer. It also provides ultimate intrusion security for the PC.

Duration: Free

Windows: 2000/XP/Vista

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Firewall software (Shareware)

Webroot Desktop Firewall

Description:

The software offers great two-way protection and keeps data safe and hackers out as well. Experts user can fine tune it to their advanced needs using the features.

Duration: 30-days trial ($29.95 to buy)

Windows: 98/ME/2000/XP

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Firewall software (Shareware)

ZoneAlarm










Description:

The software adds powerful, multi-layered security and additional protection to the computer. It includes operating system firewall, network and program firewall, anti-spyware, identity theft protection.

Duration: 15-days trial ($39.95 to buy)

Windows: 2000/XP

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Spy/Adware software (Freeware)

Spybot- Search & Destroy

Description:

The software can detect and remove multiple adware files and modules from the computer. It also can clean program and web-usage tracks from the system ensuring complete elimination from the system.

Duration: Free

Windows: 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista

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Spy/Adware software (Freeware)

Ad-Aware










Description:

The software can scam the ram, registry, hard drives and external storage devices from known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components. It allows the maintaining of higher degree of privacy while surfing the Internet.

Duration: Free

Windows: 2000/XP/2003/Vista

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Spy/Adware software (Shareware)

Norton Antispam

Description:

The software auto detects and flags spam as it arrives in the user’s email inbox and moves it into a special Spam folder, where the user can restore or delete any message. It can detect a high percentage of spam after install.

Duration: 30-days trial ($39.95 to buy)

Windows: 98/ME/2000/XP

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Spy/Adware software (Shareware)

Webroot Spy Sweeper










Description:

The software is a tool used to stay safe from spyware, adware, keyloggers, and Trojans, and all which can lead to identity theft and fraud. The user can use Internet without fear of infection after using this software.

Duration: 30-days trial ($29.95 to buy)

Windows: 2000/XP/Vista

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Antivirus software (Freeware)

AVG Anti-Virus










Description:

The software is a well-known antivirus protection tool. It is free to use for home users for life of the product. It is easy to use and will not slow down system.

Duration: Free

Windows: 2000/XP/Vista

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Antivirus software (Shareware)

Panda Antivirus










Description:

The software provides easy-to-use protection to computer. The user can chat, share photos and videos with friends, read favourite blogs, surf web safely.

Duration: 30-days trial ($69.90 to buy)

Windows: 98/Me/2000/XP

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Antivirus software (Shareware)

ZoneAlarm Antivirus










Description:

The software includes enhanced detection and removal capabilities that stop even the latest and most aggressive viruses before they infect the PC.

Duration: 15-days trial ($19.95 to buy)

Windows: 2000/XP/Vista

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Antivirus software (Shareware)

Kaspersky Anti-Virus










Description:

The software provides traditional anti-virus protection based on the latest protection technologies. The user can work, communicate, surf the internet and play online games on computer safely and easily.

Duration: 30-days trial ($49.95 to buy)

Windows: 2000/XP/Vista

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Antivirus software (Shareware)

McAfee VirusScan










Description:

The software offers proactive PC security to prevent malicious attacks, to protect the computer, surf, search and download files online safely. It also provides security against multi-pronged attacks by combining antivirus and antispyware technologies.

Duration: 30-days trial ($39.99 to buy)

Windows: 2000/XP/Vista

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Antivirus software (Shareware)

Norton Antivirus










Description:

The software helps to protect entire computer by block viruses and spyware and giving advanced protection. It scans and cleans all email and instant messaging attachments, preventing from receiving and spreading virus to and from others.

Duration: 15-days trial ($39.99 to buy)

Windows: XP/Vista

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Players/ plug-in

Audacity










Description:

A cross-platform digital audio editor application used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts.

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Players/ plug-in

Adobe Reader










Description:

A computer programs used to read or access PDF files.

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Players/ plug-in

Winamp Player










Description:

A proprietary media player that supports wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats.

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Players/ plug-in

QuickTime Player










Description:

A multimedia framework capable of handling various formats of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music and others.

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Players /plug-in

iTunes Player










Description:

A digital media player application for playing and organizing digital music and video files.

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Players /plug-in

VLC Media Player

Description:

A portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats. It is able to stream over networks and transcode multimedia files and save them into different formats.

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Players /plug-in

Adobe Shockwave Player










Description:

A multimedia player that allows Adobe Director applications to be published on the Internet and viewed in a web browser by anyone who has the Shockwave plug-in installed.

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Players /plug-in

Adobe Flash Player










Description:

A widely distributed proprietary multimedia and application player that runs files that can be created by Adobe Flash authoring tool.

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Players /plug-in

DivX Player

Description:

A standalone media player for DivX encoded video created by DivX, Inc.

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Players /plug-in

Real Player










Description:

A cross-platform media player that plays a number of multimedia formats and multiple versions of proprietary audio and video formats.

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Compression Utilities

ZipGenius










Description:

A compression utility which can give better protection to archives using encryption instead of standard zip password and other special features than other compression utilities.

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Compression Utilities

Quick zip

Description:

A powerful and fast compression utility which provides easy to use filtering techniques to search for files inside of an archive and many other features.

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Download Manager

YouTube Downloader










Description:

A download manager used to download videos from YouTube and many others and converts them to other video formats.

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Download Manager

Fresh Download










Description:

An easy-to-use and very fast download manager software that turbo charges downloading of files from internet.

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Download Manager

GigaGet










Description:

A download manager that support multi-file formats and browsers, safe and easy to use and manageable with many other functions.

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Download Manager

FlashGet










Description:

A free download manager that support downloading of sequence of files, split files to download into sections, also download each section simultaneously and other functions.

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Download Manager

Free download manager










Description:

A free download manager that supports HTTP & FTP download and others, it can resume broken downloads and other functions.

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Graphics Utilities

Gimp










Description:

A graphics editor software used to process digital graphics and photographs

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Graphics Utilities

Blender










Description:

A software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, etc.

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Graphics Utilities

Paint .Net










Description:

A software to retouch photos and etc.

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Theme Packs

BricoPack Longhorn Inspirat










Description: A free pack that is older version of Vista Inspirat.

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Theme Packs

BricoPack Crystal XP










Description:

A free pack system files that change Windows system into a new appearance.

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Theme Packs

BricoPack Vista Inspirat










Description:

A free pack which modifies Windows XP system files in order to change its appearance and make it look like Windows Vista.

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Overclocking software

Core Temp










Description:

A compact program use to monitor CPU temperature. It shows temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system. The CPU temperature can be seen in real time when CPU is load up.

Duration: Free

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Overclocking software

HWMonitor











Description:

A hardware monitoring software that will read the system’s main health sensors such as temperatures, voltages, fans speed.

Duration: Free

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Tweaking software

GameBoost









Description:

A tool that allows the modification of computer’s settings to increase gaming and internet speed performance. It does not modify hardware and all adjustments and settings are done easily.

Duration: 28-days trial

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Tweaking software

PcBoost

Description: A tool that allows the modification of computer’s settings to increase its performance and speed. It does not modify hardware and all adjustments and settings are done easily.

Duration: 28-days trial

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Microsoft Vista Recommended Sidebar Gadgets

Google Search

Desciption:

With this you can search by entering your search terms. You no longer need to access the Google main page.

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Virtual Map StreetDirectory Gadget

Description:

It is a virtual map technology. With this, you can find any place in Singapore. You can also view information about SMRT locations and book taxis.

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MyDictionary

Description:

Use this to look up words that you do not know. With this, you do not need to flip into the book and can save a lot of time by using this.

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LTA Singapore Road Monitoring

Description:

Before you start your day to office or at the end of a hard day in office - before you step out view the traffice condition at all Major Expressway like Woodland Checkpoint, ECP, PIE, CTE, TPE etc.

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Drive Info

Description:

This gadget monitors your PC's drives and shows you the available space for those you've selected

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Visual Tooltip

Description:

This gadget creates a thumbnail of the windows when you put your cursor on the buttons of the taskbar and etc.

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Media Player

Description:

This media player gadget can be used to play music, videos or radios from the Windows Media Player media database. All the usual functions of a multimedia player are available.

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RD safely

Description:

This vista gadget makes it possible to disconnect your usb, SATA, eSATA drives very easily. It also displays in the windows sidebar free space for the drive. And you can with a simple Double click explore your device.

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Volume Gadget

Description:

This vista gadget allows you to control the volume directly from the windows sidebar.

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