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[Thomas Hudson]

"List, Christopher" wrote:
>         ...but speaking of cheap PCs, I've been pricing out PC upgrades for
> myself and others lately. I've found that you can put together a brand new,
> *name brand parts* machine with; 8mb AGPx2 video, 128mb 100Mhz SDRAM, 4Gb
> HD, 40x CDrom, Celeron 300A overclocked to 450 MHz with a big ass CPU fan to
> keep it cool, case and floppy for under $700! 

I did this and was able to get the price down to $500. I have a machine
that screams:

300A Celeron   87
128M          168
Full Tower     35
6.4 gig HD    139
Abit MB        90
Cooling Fans   35

The hard part is finding one place that has good prices, otherwise
shipping can eat up your savings. Don't worry about getting the
case from the same place, they'll ship it separately anyway.

The Abit BH6 mb is by far the most flexible, I'm actually running
my 300a Celeron at 464mHz. Since the cache on a Celeron runs at
the same speed as the processor, in some benchmarks it will 
outperform a regular Pentium w/ half-speed cache, even though 
the Celeron has less cache.

Thomas