Re: [MLUG] Re: my son wants to build a pimped up PC...

[Rick <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

While it may reflect just how lazy I'm getting at home, I've taken to 
ordering the motherboard/CPU/memory combo, assembled and tested for $9 
from mwave.com. Drop that package with whatever other cards and drives 
you want into a case and viola! Usually, I spend about $3-400 per year 
to upgrade my machines this way and then do a rolling upgrade down the 
line to everyone else in the house. This year I imagine the 2 year old 
will be getting her first machine =)

One of my coworkers mentioned that they will assemble whatever 
components you purchase from them into a "barebones" system for $40 as 
well.

Rick

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Jonathan King wrote:
>
> > Running Linux, of course.
>
> Then let's put this on the members list.
>
>
> > You just knew this was going to happen at some point, so it's not a 
> > major surprise. He has enough money squirreled away to build a 
> > low-endish system, so I might fork over for a little bit of it.
>
> Nice.  I'm definitely not surprised!
>
>
> > Small, quiet, and energy-efficient would be nice. I looked into mini- 
> > and micro-itx stuff, but it looks like that's not the cheapest way to 
> > start (although it's got the other qualifications down). Not being 
> > into the stock PC hardware thing very much at this point, I'm not 
> > exactly sure where to start looking for an appropriate mobo/processor 
> > combination, especially given that I need everything supported by a 
> > non-bleeding-edge kernel.
> >
> > I know some of the micro systems have built-in graphics, but I am 
> > guessing we'll want something beefy enough to support something like 
> > Beryl in style. Performance otherwise doesn't need to be phenomenal; 
> > we're going to stick 1 GB in it on general principal, so everything 
> > will be cached most of the time. :-)
> >
> > The case has to be super-cool, of course.If we went micro-itx, it 
> > would probably end up being one of those bizarre custom enclosure things.
>
> To get ideas of what you need to buy and how much you should be paying, 
> I'd look at some of the places that build custom systems and offer 
> certain default configurations.  Example of a place near me:
>
> http://www.nanosys1.com/systems---upgrades-systems.html
>
> Of course, you'll have to be sure that the hardware will play nicely 
> with Linux, but that must usually not be a problem these days.  The 
> graphics card will probably end up being just about the priciest part of 
> the system.
>
> Mike

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Let's have a traditional thanks giving this year...invite the neighbors 
over for dinner..then kill them and take their land!!
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