Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 23:28:52 02/17/03
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On February 18, 2003 at 01:47:07, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >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 $3,500. >> >>The Xeon system is probably equally overpriced. Bob could offer a good >>comparison with his dual 2.8 GHz Xeon. >> >>-Matt > >not everyone is willing to build their own pc matt :) > >btw its nice to see someone else going for the stealth pc with seagate HDs and >the antec case. > >anthony You don't actually need to build it yourself, you can get all the parts for much less and when you have what you need just go down to your local computer store and have someone put it together for 50-70$ :) Regards Jonas
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