[olug] Advice on a white box builder

[Timothy G. O'Brien]

My prob with tiger direct - spamming me before I rcvd the requested quote, and the sales putz who was clueless & unhelpfull.

They are off of my list...


Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu> wrote:

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>> site and start to configure.  XP home/pro is the only choice for the OS. 
>
>Blame Microsoft for this.  The Dimensions HAVE to ship with XP due to
>OEM license stuff.  Dell can't even ship the Dimensions without an OS
>because of MS.  The other Dell 'lines' have different contracts and part
>of the reason that the other models cost more is because MS charges more
>for the non-exclusive OEM license for these lines.
>
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>> Sorry for the M$ references but they are the client of choice for the
>> company currently.  I am replacing M$ servers with *nix as I go though :).
>I don't think anyone would judge somebody because of where they work
>having Windows.  It's just a fact of life (at least for now :) ).
>
>> The systems I'm looking for are P4, 512MB, 20GB, NIC,USB, Win2K.   Anyone
>> bought something similiar lately? What did you pay?
>>
>
>Three months ago I bought an Athlon 1800+xp/DVD/ASUS MB/512 Megs Cosair
>CAS 2.0 memory and some slick IDE cables from GOOGLEGEAR.com (~$600, the
>memory was WAY expensive for Cosair).  A friend of mine just bought a
>similar upgrade from googlegear but with a CD-ROM burner and cheaper
>memory for under $500.  We both bought cases&PS/HD/keyboards/mice from
>DIT.
>
>Both of us have been happy with googlegear.com so far.
>
>My research group just bought a dual PIII 1Ghz server from Tigerdirect.
>Bare bones was $699.  If you don't need steller performance, you may get
>some pretty good all-in-one MBs from Tigerdirect.  I haven't had any
>trouble with them either.
>
>Cheers.
>Carl Lundstedt
>UNL
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