Dan's quite right. My latest machine's specs: Athlon 2800XP+ 512MB CL2 Corsair DDR400 Gigabyte KT700-1394 motherboard w/ builtin lan/sound and SATA Pioneer DVD and LiteOn 24x10x40 CDRW Chaintech Geforce 4 Ti4200 128Mb 4xAGP WD 40Gb 7200rpm ATA/100 Enermax 430W P/S Artec Cyclone case
Built it all for just over 700 bux. That's my gaming computer so it runs XP pro, but it's still amazingly fast for the amount of money i put into it. Another ~200 bux will get me dual 120Gb SATA drives which will be put into RAID. So figure 900 $ when all said and done....that's pretty cheap, and while it's not *top* of the line, it certainly will do everything i want it to very efficiently. Brendan On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 20:43, Dan Noe wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:41:39PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > > My dream machine has the following specs: > > > > 64-bit 3GHz AMD Opteron > > 4 GB RAM > > ATI 9800 > > 3 300GB IDE HDD's (7200 RPM) > > 3 300GB SCSI HDD's and a RAID controller > > 1 Hotswapable 10/100/1000 NIC > > Board capable of supporting Hotswappable PCI cards > > SoundBlaster's latest offering > > USB everything 'cept monitor (which would be a 52" plasma screen tv) > > You're shooting kinda high :) > > However, you can realistically get a fantastic machine for under $1000 these > days. Athlon 2600+, 512MB of fast, quality RAM, 200GB HD, nice board, quality > power supply... Its all very impressive. The trick is to start high and > work your way down until you find the price/performance breakeven. The > other trick is not to buy cheap, crappy components to save a buck. You > can really get burned with bad memory or a bad power supply... -- Brendan Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
