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Sandeep,
Looks decent, but I think that you could get a little hotter system for
close to the same price. I went this way:
Motherboard: Asus A7V P133 motherboard $155 (several months ago,
probably cheaper now)
CPU: AMD Athlon Tbird 266FSB-1GHz. $139.95 w/shipping (from CompU Plus)
Hard drive: Maxtor Diamond Max 45Gb. ATA/100 w/ATA-100 controller card
$115 (I didn't need the controller card, but by buying the two
components there was a $50 rebate from the original $150 price)
Video card: Asus V7700 GForce2 GTS Pure, nVidia chipset, 32Mb. $149
(went for this since I'm building such a hot system, I wanted to see
some game performance)
Case: Enlight 7237 OM-3 $37
Power supply: Sparkle 300W $40
Sound: SB 128: $40
RAM: 256Mb. PC-133 $95
SCSI: Adaptec AHA-2920 $40 (to run my old PlexWriter 8/20 CD-R and my
scanner)
Other components, like the modem, CD-ROM, CD-R and floppy, I'm taking
out of my current box which is a P233MMX and sorely in need of
retirement. Since I've been accumulating these components over several
months, the prices are a little high compared to what they can be had
for today. My main concern though was the motherboard, CPU, hard drive,
and video card. Still haven't built the box--waiting for the video card.
Including the Logitech Wireless Trackman Wheel mouse, extra serial card,
and NIC, my cost was $900. If I would have waited on the RAM and
motherboard, I probably could have gotten it done for closed to $850.
In the final analysis, to the end user, I don't think there will be much
perceived difference in performance.
Good luck,
Neal
Sandeep Mangaraj wrote:
>
> Grab your Phillips, it's...
> The Latest from The Screwdriver List!
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am somewhat new to the list, am very glad to see an increase in activity.
> I am thinking about building two new systems for my kids, wanted the systems
> under a grand, the spec's are as follows:
>
> Case: IW-S500
> $58.00
> MotherBoard: ASUS CUSL2-C Mainboard
>$145.00
> Chip: Celeron 800 FC-PGA /128 On-Die Cache
>$135.00
> Video: VIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 32MB SDRAM AGP VIDEO CARD $75.00
> HDD: WD 20.0GB U-100/7200/2M/8.9
> $113.00
> DVD/CD: CDDVDP16XI Pioneer 16X IDE Internal DVD $119.00
> Decoder: REALmagic Hollywood DVD decoder
>$45.00
> SDRAM: PC150 SDRAM
> $60.00
> Floppy Drive: Teac
> $14.00
>
> Once that is done I will take on of the Compaq p-200's and install a
> CD-writer, W2K AS, then make it another domain controller. My goal is to
> make the CD-writer a resource of the network, and available to everyone on
> the network. As far as the burner I am thinking of going with the Plextor
> 12x10x32a (at $200-$250). The reason for this is that the data not
> necessarily be always on the local drive.
>
> Any thoughts on this before I invest the money. Thank you.
>
> SM.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Mukluk
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 5:00 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of The_Screwdriver_List
> Subject: From The Screwdriver List: Re: Screwdriver_List_Digest - Number
> 51
>
> Grab your Phillips, it's...
> The Latest from The Screwdriver List!
>
> Hi Chief,
>
> thanks for your msg, I'm just wondering where the other subscribers to the
> Screwdriverlist are? or am I doing something not quite right. It's been a
> long time since I have been subscribing to a Mailings List :).
>
> Mukluk
>
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