If he's not going to be using it for gaming, you do realise you could halve most of those specs, right?
Umm yeah.....but it's like a guy thing, you know?
Besides:
Duron 800's are going for 35 dollars, but the 266fsb 1.2's are going for 83 dollars. What's 50 bucks these days?
I don't want to skimp on the Heatsink.
I could lose the CDRW for a CD-rom...save about 50 dollars)
I want to use a motherboard, that I know that will work with no problems and Raid is a nice feature to have built in. I could save about 130 dollars going non-Raid. Have to buy an extra Harddrive, and the Raid motherboard is about 20 dollars more. (Can't skimp on the "Motherboard". My conscience just won't let me. I just can't bring myself into putting an unkown, generic, Motherboard in the shopping cart...probably be a 40 dollar savings....and maybe a 10 dollar savings on Sdram...Durons are 200FSB....but I already discussed the price difference on that and a 266FSB 1.2).
I can't figure anyway to save on memory; it's already dirt cheap. I could get a cheaper case; it's about a 50 dollar savings, if I do (currently planning on getting an Antec1030 or 40).
I'm already picking a low end video card for 30 bucks.
I think an 1.2 Athlon DDR system running Raid for less than 1,100 dollars is real good price (still need a case, monitor, and little stuff, like, maybe some speakers and a powerstrip...reason the 400 dollar increase).
He could buy a prebuilt one, complete with printer, monitor and a other extras, cheaper than I could ever build. Of course quality and upgradeablilty are in question if he goes that way. No reason in me making a bottom end computer, if he can just pick up a complete Dell system for 800 dollars.
I could give him this old P200mmx......for nothing......... (but.....I'll miss seeing it
He won't have any braggin', rights. That's very important among co-workers, you know.
Guess it comes out to be about 300 dollars cheaper for basic system. (Guess I'll just run a price check and show it too him....lets see just how much he want to impress the guys at work.)
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OH...and water doesn't conduct electricity.....it's the foreign elements inside the water that do. Distilled water won't conduct electricity. Not that it matters in the real world.
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