Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 23:42:46 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 The Antec case is awesome. I will never build another PC without an Antec or equivalent OEM. (The Chenming are Antec cases too IIRC.) The Seagate HDs are also unbeatable. Supposedly the Barracuda V drives have both best ATA reliability and highest sustained transfer rates. I believe the 80 GB SATA version is about $120. The 3ware 8500-4 is the SATA version of that RAID card. I would like to replace my 6410 with the 8500-4, but there are many better ways to spend $380. (Not to mention I would need new drives -- investment of $600!) Though not everyone builds their own PCs, it is trivial to order a custom PC prebuilt with 3 years warranty. The overhead for ordering it prebuilt and including warranty tacks on maybe $400 if the shop is reasonable. The components listed in the original message do not even add up to $2,000. A superb dual-Athlon (RAID, lots of ram, fast chips) can be prebuilt for around $2,000. I know this because I have a friend who runs a shop that does this, and the quote I put together 5 minutes ago was around $2,000. His prices tend to run high. -Matt
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