This is to replace the mobo in a box with a Cyrix/IBM cpu. Everything in it is pretty old, and would have to be replaced if I rebuild from scratch. From experience I would say that I would be pushing £500 to get a full decent system together. If I buy this for £50 I can get away by putting in the current drives and spending nothing else. But will it run Mandrake?
Anne On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 10:02 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: > In my opinion, you can do much better for the same or just a little more > money. I build all my own PC's, and for others, too. For example, in the > U.S., you can get an Athlon 1700+ tbred "B" for $48 US, which is 3 times > the cpu. Mobo/cpu combos run $80 and up- for instance a PC chips > board/1700+ combo runs $81 US. It also depends on if you are planning on > using the ram you have now. Do some research before buying something. Look > on Pricewatch, and compare stuff to what you have now. For the > price/performance, you can't beat the Athlon 1700+ Tbred "B," and it can be > matched with many low priced boards which all work fine. > > Robert Crawford > > On Sunday 30 March 2003 02:38 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I have been offered a PCChips M787CLM mobo, 1GHz VIA C3 cpu, pretty well > > everything on board. I can't find anything on the web about this exact > > model, but have seen a thread describing a Debian install on a related > > model, and VIA C3 chips appear to be used in some of the new quiet small > > boards that I have seen mentioned. > > > > Does anyone know anything, good, bad or indifferent, that would influence > > me? They are asking £50, by the way. > > > > Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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