Doh!  After sending off my original reply to this topic, I realized that I
had omitted mention of the drives.

Floppy Drive:  I still find these useful, and at only $9 ($1 shipping), they
are relatively inexpensive.

Hard Drive:  7200rpm drives are pretty standard these days, and 40GB drive
is about all you may need on a basic comuputer.  Seagate makes very good
drives, and they've started putting 5 year warranties on them, $54 ($1
shipping).  However, it doesn't cost all that much more to move up to a 80GB
drive.  Seagate's 7200rpm model with 2MB cache is $66 ($1 shipping).  These
are EIDE drives, as the motherboards that I mentioned in my prior post do
not support SATA.

Optical Drive:  A basic CD-ROM or even DVD-ROM may be all you need, and
LiteOn makes some inexpensive models, such as their $19 52x CD-ROM or their
$28 16x DVD-ROM.  However, many folks would consider a CD burner as basic
equipment these days, in which case there is LiteOn's 52x CD burner for $28
or their Combo drive (52x16x) for $42.

Adding the cost of the floppy drive ($9), 40GB hard drive ($54), and the
DVD-ROM ($28) to my previous $340 subtotal brings the cost of this box up to
$431.  (I thought that previous number sounded too low.)

John Sproule

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Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] New build


> Here are some suggestions for a basic, business apps computer.

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