Cheap hardware

[Stilgar]

Some of y'all may be interested in the cheap box talk over at hardcop forum.

$ 79.00 Fry's - Shuttle MB w/750 Duron
$ 10.00 Cheap LAN Card 10/100
$ 19.00 64 Megs PC 133 (6 layer)
$ 39.00 Fry's - Cheap Box w/pwr supply
$ 05.00 Used PCI video card (3D blaster)
$ 16.00 Used 1.275 Gig HD (conner)
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$168.00 Total cost



The link can be found
Here (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=176870)
Also you may want to look thru some of the other threads

Some of the listings below. (Have not had dealings with any of these companies so buyer beware.) You may want to check
Reseller ratings (http://www.resellerratings.com/) first.

Overstock.com (http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=28617&fp=T)

Yahoo (http://store.yahoo.com/justdeals/)

Computersurplus (http://www.computersurplusoutlet.com/showproduct.asp?Category=19)

Mwave (http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/index.hmx)

[Dave S]

cool thanx dude:)

[siggy]

Great info. Thanks for sharing.

[dnar]

Here in Australia, I can buy an "upgrade" package with:

Mini tower case, 250W PSU
All in one mobo / 128Mb RAM / Sound / Video
Duron 800
Floppy

All you need is your h/disk and CD-ROM.

A$420.

Not bad, your basic G@H cruncher. Just add a $25 NIC and $25 1Gb s/hand hard disk.....

[Stilgar]

Right now I'm looking at a few of my parts. Trying to get it organized so I can add another box. Parts available,
1 - AT form full tower (5 full size, 2 1/2 size slots)
2 - agp (cheapo) 1 pci vid. card
128 meg pc100 ram
1 - 8 gig hard drive
2 - 3 1/2 floppy drives
1 - 4 port kvm switch (with nothing connected yet.)
3 - cd players. (Old but enough to load an os to the comp.)

Question here, how successful would a atx power supply transplant be on this at? I'm sure I would have to do some case mods for ports. Or what kind of suggestions on at boards are out there?

[MikeTimbers]

Originally posted by Stilgar
Right now I'm looking at a few of my parts.

You know you can go blind doing that :)

[Medic193]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers


You know you can go blind doing that :)

:D :D

[pelligrini]

Originally posted by Stilgar
Right now I'm looking at a few of my parts. Trying to get it organized so I can add another box. Parts available,
1 - AT form full tower (5 full size, 2 1/2 size slots)
2 - agp (cheapo) 1 pci vid. card
128 meg pc100 ram
1 - 8 gig hard drive
2 - 3 1/2 floppy drives
1 - 4 port kvm switch (with nothing connected yet.)
3 - cd players. (Old but enough to load an os to the comp.)

Question here, how successful would a atx power supply transplant be on this at? I'm sure I would have to do some case mods for ports. Or what kind of suggestions on at boards are out there?

As far as I know about the fastest AT board would be a dual socket-8 with a couple of PII overdrives @333 ea. It would probably run $130 or so with overdrives probably <$90 for regular pro's. Tyan makes a pretty good dual AT board. I put mine into our office's P166-fileserver with a couple of 1mb cache P-Pro's

You are probably much better off cutting some holes for the mouse and keyboard connectors for an ATX board.

I really don't even use a floppy, cdrom or other perifs in my crunching machines. Once they are set up and able to boot without any user intervention I'll use a remote program to take care of 'em

[Stilgar]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers


You know you can go blind doing that :)

I already have.:D

[Stilgar]

Originally posted by pelligrini


As far as I know about the fastest AT board would be a dual socket-8 with a couple of PII overdrives @333 ea. It would probably run $130 or so with overdrives probably <$90 for regular pro's. Tyan makes a pretty good dual AT board. I put mine into our office's P166-fileserver with a couple of 1mb cache P-Pro's

You are probably much better off cutting some holes for the mouse and keyboard connectors for an ATX board.

I really don't even use a floppy, cdrom or other perifs in my crunching machines. Once they are set up and able to boot without any user intervention I'll use a remote program to take care of 'em

I may try the case mod. I've been wanting to resurrect the old case. It's a monster!! I will probably keep the 3 /12 and cd's in place until the next set up. Got to hit a few places and see what I can come up with on the board. I heard about a local place what has some comp. surplus stuff. Have to make a trip by it some time next week.

[dnar]

The other day I was down at my local semiconductor suppliers, he has a corner of his shop that he allows customers to use for selling old "junk". Miscellaneous fans, cards, routers, printers, etc.

Anyways, he has these 2 full tower systems at the moment, heavy duty cases, psu, full height IDE drives (yikes!), 486-66 with HSF, case fans, video card, EDO RAM, floppy. A$25 each. I know they are worth jack for running G@H but maybe wylie or shubles could do with the cases.... They have hinged doors over the drive bays, what looks like 2mm thick metal work.... GOOD FOR O/C systems...... let me know....

[shubles]

well...
im putting wylie in charge of the upgrading and building the shubles puters, but my mate dingo (who is crunching EXTREMELY slowly for us) has a shitty machine and is looking to update soon.
he could probably use one.

*he crunched one gene in about 3 weeks*

*at least it was a genome_collective team gene though*