1GHz Athlon Systems for $500

[W. Wayne Liauh]

This is really great!  I upgraded all our office PCs to a similar 
system, at twice the cost, and still considered them a very good bargain.


Warren Togami wrote:

> I will soon be buying parts in bulk for building many extremely low cost AMD
> Athlon systems.  All of this hardware works great with Linux, and I can
> bring the cost per unit down further if I can buy more quantity.  Anyone
> want one?
> 
> 1GHz Athlon Thunderbird
> 256MB PC133 2-2-2 Crucial RAM
> Asus A7VI-VM Motherboard
> w/ Integrated Video
> w/ Integrated RealTek 8139 10/100 ethernet
> w/ Integrated AC97 audio
> w/ empty AGP slot & 3 empty PCI slots
> 52x CD-ROM
> 20GB 7200rpm ATA100 IBM Hard Drive
> Enlight 300W ATX case
> 
> Estimated Price: ~$500
> 
> This machine can probably be safely overclocked to 1.1-1.2GHz.  Tell me if
> you want ECC RAM instead of non-ECC, it is roughly the same price.  I'm
> getting price quotes from vendors now, so I'll have an exact price sometime
> soon.
> 
> Warren
> 
> 
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