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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5538)	1/24/1999 5:30:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

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