[tech] Upgrading our PCs..]
David Manchester
mustang at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Oct 25 00:51:14 WST 2000
> 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? :)
> bestbits.ii.net generally provides a good reference to pick up prices
> on hardware in Perth.
Bestbits seems to be fairly slow in updating things these days.
I don't know if Nick's given it away...
(granted I've not checked it in a while and will probably snooze rather
than load Netscape, but yeah - it pays to shop around)
Cheers
/dave
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