Re: [expert] Building a new Lm system (more)

2000-07-28 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: Shortly after I mailed this message yesterday, I found that two local stores are selling ~800 MHz Pentium III machines with "everything" for $800 to $900. One machine is an HP, another is an A-Open. They include gargantuan hard drives, 128 M, kb, mouse, modem

Re: [expert] Building a new Lm system (more)

2000-07-27 Thread Doug McGarrett
ll over the country right now. One warning: a lot of "popular" work-station type computers are gutless wonders. Make sure it has enough PCI slots on the mobo for whatever you want to do. Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:16:28 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

[expert] Building a new Lm system

2000-07-26 Thread Sridhar G
Hi all, I am planning to build a new system. What will be the approx price to assemble a 700+ Mhz system. I have a choice of buying a complete system from one of the Linux harware guys or building my own. Which will be cheaper. If building my own can i rely on online purchase of components,

Re: [expert] Building a new Lm system

2000-07-26 Thread Pj
At 10:25 PM 7/25/00 -0700, you wrote: Hi all, Sridhar, The voice of experience speaks when I say if you do not know the in's and out's of hardware/software, and do not know precisely what you are doing inre to building a Linux box..save yourself a lot of headaches and money; let Tom at

Re: [expert] Building a new Lm system

2000-07-26 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Sridhar G wrote: Hi all, I am planning to build a new system. What will be the approx price to assemble a 700+ Mhz system. I have a choice of buying a complete system from one of the Linux harware guys or building my own. Which will be cheaper. If building my own can i rely on online

Re: [expert] Building a new Lm system

2000-07-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Sridhar G" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Expert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 1:25 AM Subject: [expert] Building a new Lm system Hi all, I am planning to build a new system. What will be the approx price to

Re: [expert] Building a new Lm system

2000-07-26 Thread Doug McGarrett
You have to do some homework. I just got thru looking at various sales spots, and I figure that I can put together an Athlon 800MHz machine with an Abit KA7-100 mobo, 128 MB PC133, and 15 GB IBM ATA-100 hd, using presently available (that I have) monitor, sound card, video card, mouse, CDR, and