- Mar 8, 2001
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Looking to build a PC for the parents. Was thinking of A shuttle system, but seems a bit pricey. I already have a CD/RW drive, 6 gig 5400 rpm harddrive and a stick of 64 mb of PC 100 RAM. I would love to hear suggestions on the cheapest acceptable setup you guys can think of. Try to keep it less then $300 total (not including monitor; I'm going to give up my 15 inch LCD so I have an excuse to get an 18 inch LCD!: Missed out on the Dell deal). Oh, I also have a keyboard, mouse and speakers. Remember, I'm looking to make a box that can suft of a 56k modem and light word processing. Ideas welcome. Thanks.
THis is something I'm considering. Its not bad, but can I do better?:
$29: Antec Mini Tower case Model KS382+PP255XH OEM with 250W power supply
$4: COOLER MASTER DP5-6I11A CPU HEAT SINK AND FAN
$76: Asus A7N266-VM AA (AMD Assured Version) NVIDIA nFORCE 220 Chipset 266/200MHz FSB Motherboard Micro ATX- Retail
$50: AMD Athlon XP 1700+ Thoroughbred /266 FSB Processor CPU 1700+/ 1.47GHz -OEM
$36: CRUCIAL MICRON 256MB 32x64 PC 2100 DDR RAM
$21: SHIPPING
TOTAL: $216.98 (prices from Newegg)
THis is something I'm considering. Its not bad, but can I do better?:
$29: Antec Mini Tower case Model KS382+PP255XH OEM with 250W power supply
$4: COOLER MASTER DP5-6I11A CPU HEAT SINK AND FAN
$76: Asus A7N266-VM AA (AMD Assured Version) NVIDIA nFORCE 220 Chipset 266/200MHz FSB Motherboard Micro ATX- Retail
$50: AMD Athlon XP 1700+ Thoroughbred /266 FSB Processor CPU 1700+/ 1.47GHz -OEM
$36: CRUCIAL MICRON 256MB 32x64 PC 2100 DDR RAM
$21: SHIPPING
TOTAL: $216.98 (prices from Newegg)