I say pretty good deal. I have that case and it is ok, nothing fancy. Would be a great general-use / non-gaming PC. Only needs an optical drive.

But for a budget system why use 60GB SSD ? Unless you have extra HDDs available. Otherwise 60GB will be full pretty quick.

Biostar motherboard is why this deal is cheap--- pass.

^ - Agree on that case one of the few nice Micro cases that are decent, while being both diminutive in size and price. Really a nice chassis to do a budget friendly, home or general-use build. The only thing with the case are the fans, I'd like 3-pin header so I can run those fan from mobo headers. What's nice is the PSU, while not superlative it's a big improvement over what bundles like this is normally straddled with, and it has great Eggviews. Odd that it's a dual rail, and would be a boon if it was an active PFC, but it does have a 8-pin EPS12V connector.

On that SSD... Yep a little strange and appears to be the piece that makes or could for most folk a downer. Most looking for a budget home or general-use build hasn't any consideration for an SSD, especially only a 60Gb. If you like the combo and can build it with a standard HDD you have lying around, while have a place for the SSD it can make it a good purchase.

Here's the real problem in wanting a budget home or general-use computer the Intel Craphics 2000 is below basic today, while using that Biostar mobo is really a passé. Remember the H-61 chipset has no SSD caching, no SATA 3, limited fan headers, and no USB 3.0 (newer stuff will at least include an I/O mobo connector). Looking at those two those two pieces it really has no merit for the entry price.

Try this for $295; my cart is showing 6.67 shipping, but the only thing I find shipping with is the PSU and it only $2? I'd check with Egg and see if they can tell you what's up, the last time I did that on a big bundle they waved all shipping. There's one $20 rebate for the Corsair PSU. I also thought I noticed this morning at the house I got an Email with a code for 15% off memory, every little bit helps.

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Hi! CaseCutter - I repped you becauseI think your posting is decent but someone still give you a thumb down.
But don't worry those who abuse the system here. Who care about them right ?

I agree with you # 5. I have respect for people that contribute alot here. Although!. Sometimes I may not agree what they say, But I always know they are just trying to help and give whatever knowloge they know. And, That's good.. I just wish, That the (Thumb Down) person can come out of the closet and Say. Hey LOOK, I just found this deal, Gigabyte 56@#$& That is much better that the deal you just posted at 250.00 shiped..

#3 What wrong with Biostar Board?. I own two, Running on Phenom II 945 quad core and 840 quad that I got from MC for 59.99 I start out with the cpu for 60 got 16gb of memory from Kingston A/R 40 bucks= 100.00 OCZ 600 watts Modular Power Supply 35.00 A/R= $135.00 and the Biostar Board is 40.00 A/R =$175.00 everything else is pull from old machine even the case and HD.. I got two good working machine running quad core at 3.6ghz Overclock with 16gb of memory. 320gb 7200rpm with 16 cache Standard Sata Hard Dive is small, But for me is plenty. I am just trying to go as cheap as posibble.. So far the Biostar Board Stand out and holding up pretty well.. For a budget built, Yes! I will. use Biostar again..

Biostar got a really bad rap in the "bad cap's" era fiasco, but everyone got hit on that so to single them out on that wouldn't be fair. That said the one Biostar I've had back in the waning years of the AMD 939 socket days, died 2.5 months after using it with a 3.2Ghz (wasn't OC'd) and RMA was a pain. Used a decent PSU for the day, a Thermaltake 430W, which was used again after I replace that mobo with Asus AN8. I think they were plagued with just cheap voltage sections, and the junk PSU's that would be paired with low end builds back in the day just exacerbated such weaknesses.

I don't know how good or bad such Biostar's are today, but that H61MGC for what should be a high volume mainstream mobo that's should've been out for a good amount of time, has 31 middling Eggviews. I'd figure there'd be a lot more purchases given the price, unless they re-spun a new model number but that's not what I'm finding. To me such low numbers and uninspired information isn't reassuring. When I pick mobo I hoping for the volume of experiences (50+) to help determine if that's the backbone I want to build on. The strange part, look at LGA1155 (H61) $50-75 at Egg, none jump out as superlative, when looking at the number or ratings from such offerings. What's that about?