On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Friday 18 July 2003 09:08 am, aron smith wrote: > > what would be the best system that one could put together for under > > $1,000.00 USD > > Rules of the game > > 1 Commercially available Hardware (no surplus SGI > > 2 It has to run Mandraike :> > > How about this? I decided to let you recycle your monitor, keyboard, NIC, and > speakers, and set this little multimedia rockstar up for you: > > $163.00 AMD Athlon XP2800 333 MHz FSB > $146.00 2 sticks PC3200 DDR 512 Mb > $84.00 Asus A7N8X Mobo (has onboard LAN and Sound not supported by > > Mandrake yet) otherwise its a totally rockin' board. > $176.00 Seagate Cheetah 73.4Gb SCSI 10000RPM > $31.00 Samsung 12xDVD/40xCD > $45.00 Mitsumi 54x-32x-54x CDRW > $158.00 Geforce 4 4400Ti 8xAGP > $82.00 Creative SB Audigy2- 6.1 > > $885.00 Total > > You will need a SCSI card for this system that is not in this quote. > > I build up a system with a XP2100, 512 Mb, GeForce 440Mx, and SBLive Card on > the A7N8X, and it rocks, and cost me about $550. This is a higher end dream > system that I would like to own. But I doubt that my wife would let me buy > it. > > Rob Rocks Alternatevly go the other way how cheap can you go? We have to use the advantages that we have >
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