On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:09:28PM +0000, Bean wrote: > Well I did a build from scratch in July last year and happened to > still have my online bill as below: > > Aria Aluminium Media PC Case @ 56.99 +VAT > Caviar 200GB 8Mb Cache 7200RPM HDD OEM @ 52.99 +VAT > WinTV Nova-T PCI Digital Free-to-air TV Card @ 51.46 +VAT > Sempron 2800 2.0Ghz Socket A 256KB 333Mhz OEM @ 40.95 +VAT > KM4M-V SocketA Graphics Audio LAN MAXT Motherboard @ 24.55 +VAT > 128MB Radeon 9200SE DDR TV Out DVI AGP @ 22.72 +VAT > 512Mb PC2700 184pin DDR DIMM Memory @ 21.50 +VAT > > The only thing I reused was a DVD-RW drive, so even allowing for > that a total brand new cost would have been about ? 375.00 or around > $ 650 USD.
There is another way to look at the cost, of course. My MythTV system cost me exactly $179 (Cdn). That was $149 for a WinTV card for the box in the basement, $10 for some ethernet cable, and $20 for a used XBox for the livingroom to act as a frontend. The rest of the system was already there handling my email, acting as a network fileserver, etc. All the old hardware was sunk cost -- the money was spent whether I added MythTV or not, so it doesn't count against the MythTV setup cost. -- "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis (1935) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users