[Pc_Support] Suggestions for a $200 barebones? Also, modem recommendations (winders)?

[Jason Boxman]

On Sunday 22 January 2006 10:06, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 22:26 -0500, Jason Boxman wrote:
> > Last one I did was a Biostar based Socket 754 system with a Sempron 2800+
> > 64-bit CPU on Bryan's advice.  The board was around $40
>
> Wow!  What model?  Was it a GF6100+nF410?  Or an older AGP one?

It was an older model with a NForce3 chipset so I could recycle my eVGA 6600GT 
that I had brought prior to buying a new mainboard.

<snip>
> Yeah.  A single 1GiB piece (fine for S754) is $70+ these days, matched
> 2x512MiB (for S939 performance) is $80+.
>
> BTW, if you're in the market for 2x1GiB, this is the 2.5-3-3-6 DDR400
> I've been buying for $169:
>   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231047

I bought some cheap PQMagic? memory.  It was two sticks of 512MB.  It's been 
fine for what I do.  Recently on dealnews or something there was a deal of 
2x512MB for like $45 or $50 AMIR.  At least $30 less than what I paid.  Oh 
well.

<snip>
> Actually, I've found internal PCTel PCI v.92 modems for cheap and most
> of the distros detect them.  You've got plenty of CPU power to drive it.

Interesting.  I hadn't been keeping up with modems.

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