[TCLUG] I'm thinking of buying a new desktop machine

Wed Nov 5 18:57:23 CST 2003

I actually built my own- all works, no problems.  Cost me about $1,000...til I added dual LCDs :)

This was six months ago, so prices have come down some:

(Amounts are off the top of my head, might be slightly different)
Athlon XP 2600+ (Retail) $105
Asus A7N8X Deluxe $125
512MB DDR 2700 Kingston HyperX (CL2) $74
(3) 120GB WD Special Edition (8MB Cache) $100/ea
DVD-ROM $10 (Office Max rebate)
CD-RW $0 (Rebates, can't remember which one, have spares)
GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB $90 (Best Buy, 'Day after Thanksgiving Sale' 2002)
(2) Promise ATA/133 Controller cards (so every device on own controller) $35/ea
(2) 17" CRTs $90 ea (new, rebates from Best Buy from 1-2 years ago, sitting unopened, decided to use)
Modem $100 Linux compatible- picked up from CompUSA (can't think of brand right now...name brand though...good one) worked out of box with RH 9 and Mandrake 9.1 (2.4 kernel, I believe, box said 2.2)
Antec Case (Think old Alienware) $66+shipping
550 Watt Antec PS $118 + shipping

Most parts ordered from Newegg, unless otherwise stated

More questions?  Fire away.

-----Original Message-----
From: George Fischer <gfischer at visi.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 16:49:08 -0600
Subject: [TCLUG] I'm thinking of buying a new desktop machine

Anybody had any experience with www.ibuypower.com?  Any recommendations
for where to buy a machine with no operating system installed?
-- 
George Fischer - gfischer at visi.com

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