Thread, as promised, here is the current status of
Spots's dream machines (sweet spot machines?<G>).
The following is all on order or has arrived at
the prices stated. Most of it is from Minotaur
except as noted. Oop, just noticed an error;
the BT930 kit is $79, not $70, a typo. True,
Dave, these are bidding at $36 right now at
onsale.com (not new), but hell with it. As I said, not
the cheapest possible. I still may substitute
a $2 Ensonic for SB/live <gg>. And maybe not.
These are almost complete systems, missing only
keyboard & mouse (nits), OSs (half-nits), monitors
(big deals, but I'm using existing ones).
Heavy muscle for the price. This month <ggg>.
Peripheral prices are not as good as possible,
but sooner or later you gotta stop fiddling and
do it. Top part of list below for each system
is from Minotaur.
Prices include shipping but not tax. A little
misleading because I am about 8 miles from Minotaur
as the crow flies or 10 miles if the crow has to
drive a car so as to haul PCs back home, so I
don't have to pay shipping for the major part.
I could never have put this together without all the
input from this thread, for which I thank everyone.
Full Tower
94.00 InWin Q500A Full Tower 300W
108.00 ABit BH6
139.00 C300A Ocd to 450 @ 2.0v
135.00 Plextor 14/32 Int SCSI CD-ROM
88.24 Creative SB-Live Value/Retail
70.08 Flashpoint LT (BT930) SCSI Ctlr Kit
19.00 Teac 3.5" Floppy
22.85 Netgear FA310TX 10/100
30.00 Assemble, test, burn-in
12.00 Internal 50-pin 8-connector SCSI cable
528.00 256 MB 100mhz CAS2 ECC SDRAM (Mushkin/Samsung)
298.50 17GB Maxtor EIDE 5400
89.00 Matrox G200 AGP SGRAM w/ tandoori option
1,633.67 System total
Mid Tower
64.00 InWin A500 Mid Tower 230W
108.00 ABit BH6
139.00 C300A Ocd to 450 @ 2.0v
58.00 Toshiba 32x EIDE CD-ROM
88.24 Creative SB-Live Value/Retail
66.52 Flashpoint LT (BT930) SCSI Ctlr - Bare card
19.00 Teac 3.5" Floppy
30.00 Assemble, test, burn-in
264.00 128 MB 100mhz CAS2 ECC SDRAM (Mushkin/Samsung)
298.50 17GB Maxtor EIDE 5400
89.00 Matrox G200 AGP w/ toast light/dark controller
1,224.26 System Total
2,857.93 Hardware/Shipping Total |
