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[ale] Good bang-for-buck mobo/cpu?
- Subject: [ale] Good bang-for-buck mobo/cpu?
- From: jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com (Joe Bayes)
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:24:37 -0700
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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Brian Pitts typeth:
>well but cheap would be Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2
>3600+ processor, and a 1GB stick of any brand of DDR2-667 memory. This
>should cost < $200.
I just went ahead and followed your suggestion. Installation was a
breeze, compared to the time and effort I spent on an ECS POS a couple
weeks ago.
And my system is FAST. :)
Caveat: The mobo manual claims that 16-chip RAM is not supported. But
I got a ($30) 16-chip stick of ram, and it seems to be working just
fine.
Cost was closer to $300 than $200: the mobo was $100, and a 4600+ was
the cheapest x2 processor they had.
Thanks again for the recommendation.
Joe
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