[plug] Building new box. Best bang /$ ?

[Bill Kenworthy]

Just putting together
thunderbird 1.4Ghz
abit kt7-raid
2x60Gbyte 7200rpm IBM drives (I saw the failure rate 2hrs AFTER I bought
em!)
750Mbyte ram
300w pwrsup in new dual fan case
+ lotsa bits I already have (memory, CDRW, CD , Zip, LS120, sound ...)

Still well under $1500 so far, but my spare network card is dead ...
Most bits from Austins, MB from PLE (www.ple.com.au)
Applied power last night and set up the bios, will be installing
Mandrake 8.1 tonight ...

For Linux, memory is cheap so go for the max!

BillK

* When I have done shuffling the hardware between mine and the kids
machines, I will have a 200Mhz (K6 or cyrix, take your pick) machine
complete with approx 4 Gbytes disk space left over (will still be in
full working order with OS installed and running) -  how much is such a
beast worth second hand?

On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 23:35, Garry wrote:
> I built a Athon 800 box 10 Months ago and have had no probs. Plenty fast
> for my uses at least.
> 
> Used an Asus A7V, 256 Mb ram, LS120, IDE CDR.. No dramas.
> 
> A mate of mine built one a couple of weekends ago, with an Asus with
> Raid 0 and a Athlon 1Ghz, but his is only running Win2k. With the
> Athlons pushing 1k4 or 1k5, 1k or 1k2 chips are getting cheap.. He
> managed to spend $1600 on the parts, but that was new everything, incl
> two 20Gb ATA100 drives, and without checking prices, from Austin.
> 
> Think Asus or Abit should suit..
> 
> Memory is very cheap right now too. 8^)==
> 
> HTH
> 
> Garry.
> 
> 
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