[tech] Upgrading our PCs..]

[Grahame Bowland]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:51:14AM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:05:44PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > > We have the motherboards we need. So we need two Pentium III CPUs, 
> > > and 128Mb of RAM times three (to get mussel to 256Mb and 128Mb for the others)
> > > 
> > > From www.iinet.net.au/~roderick/ (RTV computers)
> > > 
> > > Component                                                           Cost
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Intel Pentium III 650MHz "E" 256k L2 on-die with SSE (100 FSB)       510
> > > 8MB Apacer PC-100 7ns SDRAM with Hyundai chips. 5 Years Warranty     275
> 
>     ^^^^ 
> [snip]
> 
> > > So we'd be looking at around $2425 to do this. I'm sure we can better this,
> > > anyone else care to contribute pricings? :)
> 
> I'd think so. I wonder how many 8MB DIMMs he sells at $275 a pop? :)

As ADI didn't see fit to come around and replace my monitor today I'm 
stuck on a 15" NEC monitor that has wierd scan rates. I've only bothered 
to make it work at 640x480 - 800x600 seems to be a strain :) That was a copy
error .. should read 128.

Cheers,
Grahame