Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 22:47:07 02/17/03
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On February 18, 2003 at 01:14:58, Matt Taylor wrote: >On February 18, 2003 at 00:49:10, K. Burcham wrote: > >> >> >>your prices will vary. >>both systems have medium price video cards. >>both systems have one single ide 7200 rpm hard drive. >>both have 4 x 512 megs ram. >>both are tower only. >>i suspect big difference in motherboard cost because i think the intel >> system had onboard scsi controller. >>both have extended warranty. >> >>2 x amd mp 2400+ 2000 mhz, 4000mhz $3486 >> >>2 x intel xeon 3060 mhz, 6120mhz $4952 >> >>kburcham > >No way. I've invested about $1,800 in my system. Here are my specs and rough >estimation of prices that I paid: > >Antec 1240SX full tower - $150 >Tyan TigerMPX - $200 >(2) AthlonMP 1600 - $340 ($170/ea.) >Samsung 1 GB ECC/Reg pc2100 - $330 >3ware Escalade 6410 - $100 >(2) Seagate Barracuda IV 60GB 7200 rpm - $200 ($100/ea.) >GeForce 4 MX440 - $75 >Soundblaster Audigy X-Gamer - $100 >Sony 16X DVD-ROM - $50 >Philips 24/12/48 CD-RW - $50 >Linksys EG1064 Gbit NIC - $80 > >Add $330 for another 1 GB of ram, add $160 to get AthlonMP 2400. Add another >$300 and you get on-board SCSI and other bells & whistles. The brings the total >to $2,300 with IDE RAID, SCSI option, 2 GB of ram + 2 empty slots for future >expansion, Gbit NIC, etc. > >$2,300. Not $3,500. > >The Xeon system is probably equally overpriced. Bob could offer a good >comparison with his dual 2.8 GHz Xeon. > >-Matt not everyone is willing to build their own pc matt :) btw its nice to see someone else going for the stealth pc with seagate HDs and the antec case. anthony
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