[tech] Upgrading our PCs..

[Nick Bannon]

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)

That'll be http://www.iinet.net.au/~roderic/ ...

> 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
> 10.2GB Qunatum Fireball LCT Hard Disk Drive                          205
> AOpen KF45a ATX MIDI Tower Casing with 250w PSU                       85
[...]

For hard drives - I got a 20GB IBM 5400RPM drive for $185 (current price
seems to be $199, damn that dollar ::-) ) just recently from a place in
Osborne Park ;
http://www.bestbuy.com.au/

They seem to be a bit cheaper on RAM, too ;
128MBPC133 PC133 128MB DIMM					$201.00

...and some budget cases ;
ATMIDI622 AT MIDI TOWER CASE 200W POWER SUPPLY			$38.00 
ATXMIDI1011 ATX MIDI TOWER FOR MICRO ATX MAINBOARD 200W		$58.00 
ATXMIDI6002 ATX DELUXE MIDITOWER 200W				$59.00 
ATXDESKTOP ATX DESKTOP CASE					$61.00 
ATXDELUXE DELUXE ATX 6001 MIDI TOWER CASE WITH 250W POWERSUPPLY	$64.00 
ATXMIDICOLOUR ATX SUPER MIDI CASE 250W WITH REMOVABLE		$73.00
	COLURED FRONT PANEL
ATXTOWER ATX 7001 FULL TOWER CASE 250 W				$92.00 
ATXMACMIDI ATX MACASE MIDI-TOWER 250 WATT			$112.00

The ATX desktop is enticing... or maybe we should buy decent cases for
once, perhaps even rackmount ones?

...and some of the Computerman's CPUs seem oddly cheap ;
http://www.computerman.com.au/
PENTIUM III 700MHZ 100MHZ 7.0 SLOT 1 $399.00
PENTIUM III 750MHZ 100MHZ 7.5 SLOT 1 $489.00
PENTIUM III 800MHZ 100MHZ 8.0 SLOT 1 $540.00
PENTIUM III 850MHZ 100MHZ 8.5 SLOT 1 $699.00
PENTIUM III 600MHZ KATMAI 133MHZ 4.5 SLOT 1 $335

We should stop to think what we want the new Celeron boxes to do -
maybe we can be stingier on the RAM (one 64MB stick - adding another
later is easy) or fiddle with the hard disc size. Both are console
boxes? or one's a server?

Nick.

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