On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 07:38:22AM -0600, Scott Dier wrote: > * Samir M. Nassar <nassarsa at redconcepts.net> [020401 03:21]: > > General Nano Systems is selling decent PC's for under 500 frog skins. > > BLEH ECS MOBO. > FYI, The SiS 735 and 745 motherboard are absolutely awesome, this is the chipset in use on the ECS motherboards. Reports of them being DOA are greatly exaggerated due to the fact that most need a single jumper moved for them to POST. They're cheap, they're FAST, they're stable. 5 PCI, AGP, DDR or SDRAM (nice upgrade path), decent onboard sound, good onboard lan. Oh yeah, SiS developers actively participate in linux kernel development. > I ordered kristine's 1800+ for ~550 for a new mobo/cpu/ram from what I > vaguely remember. It was from mwave.com. Just in case you dont really > need anything but upgrade an existing PC. > Last summer I got the following: PC Chips M830LR motherboard, .5G DDR, Case: 4 5 1/2 bays, 4 3 1/4 bays (2 ext, 2 int), 300w 'AMD Approved' P/S 1.3GHz 266mhz "c" core Athlon Total cost? $350 or so with tax. This is the same one that I got a lot of snow in at the last Install Fest, and repeatedly tried to turn on =P (no, it's still hasn't crashed) > -- > Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203