Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 03:01:54 05/18/02
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Well, I built my own XP 2000+ machine for £595 (actually about £750 if I add in the value of components I already had - graphics card, Ethernet card and CDRW); I use Linux so the 'Microsoft tax' of £130 plus wasn't levied ;) I strongly recommend building your own as, from what I found, the manufacturer's markup is 30 per cent - and the rest - and you have complete control over what the machine contains. I had 'no previous experience', apart from installing memory and expansion cards, yet took about five hours* to build the machine and felt I'd done something significant at the end. It was reasonably straightforward; the motherboard instructions were excellent and everything fitted together nicely with only a couple of glitches easily corrected (a couple of minor connectors in the wrong place and forgetting to set the processor speed in the BIOS). Alastair * two and a half hours research at sites like www.tomshardware.com and www.anandtech.com, half an hour online buying at www.aria.co.uk and www.crucial.com/uk, and two hours with a cross-headed screwdriver :)
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