Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:17:15 05/19/02
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On May 18, 2002 at 06:01:54, Alastair Scott wrote: >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 :) Which motherboard did you choose?
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