PII 300s on up) at decent prices.
Compgeeks.com sometimes also has decent barebones kits, but they tend to be
thrown together in an attempt to liquidate stock.
I love the Shuttle systems, but haven't bought one myself yet (I had several
FIC SFF pcs and just couldn't justify it). When you're looking at them
remember to note how much comes onboard: they may seem pricey, but all you
need to add (generally) is memory, drives and a CPU.
Jim Davis
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From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 11:38 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: [Long]Consoles better than PC..
Thanks for the advice. What I'll almost certainly end up doing is
buying a barebones kit. For whatever reason, that seems to be cheaper
than buying the mobo, processor, fan, ram separately, even though I
don't need a new case.
I'm not looking for high performance, just ... um ... the ability to
play MPEGs without them skipping. :-)
--BenD
Lyons, Larry wrote:
> Ben you might want to do what I did, I built a Shuttle XPC system that
> worked out to be fairly inexpensive. Right now I'm pricing out a new
system
> to replace our old Athlon 750 MHz that recently died.
>
> Between Pricewatch.com, and eBay you can build a fairly cheap kickass
> system. I also found the BuildIt section of ExtremeTech.com's site
> (http://www.extremetech.com/category2/0,1556,644478,00.asp) to be really
> helpful. They had a great series of articles on building high performance
> machines for under $1500 (They have a great article on building an $800
> killer PC).
>
> larry
>
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