Hardware Components
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Biostar M7VIG-Pro Motherboard:
Built around the
Via KM266 chipset,
this board has slots for both PC133 (cheap) and PC2100 DDR (expensive) memory,
allowing an upgrade path. And the price is right: $60.
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AMD Athlon XP 1700+ CPU: at $55,
a good tradeoff for value and speed.
- CPU cooling fan and heatsink.
Thermaltake Volcano 9.
This is an 8 cm (case-sized fan), which we will also use to bring in outside air. Has cool LED's,
for power on and HDD in use, saving us the bother of installing separate LED's for those functions. $28.
- Memory: 512 MB PC133 Kingston Value RAM.
This was cheap ($66). The board has slots for both 168 pin PC133 memory and 184 pin DDR,
allowing a later upgrade path to faster memory (when it becomes cheaper!). We opted for plenty (512 MB) of memory
because the onboard video processor will grab 32 MB. Ordered as a single stick, so if one person upgrades to DDR, other
can opt buy them out of their PC133 and have room for it.
- Power Supply: Fortron ATX 300 watt,
rated and approved for Athlon. Scrounged power supplies are, alas, not up to the job.
(AMD and Intel upped the power amperage required on +5 vsb. output). $32.
This one has a huge 12cm fan, which we should be able to get to run quiet.
- Hard Disk:
Maxtor 60GB 7200 RPM ATA 133.
This will fly. The video editors wanted more disk space, so we've upped the
capacity from 40 to 60GB on this order. $87.
- Case: We'll build a small, lightweight wood case this time!
- CD-ROM: various, scrounged.
- 3.5 inch floppy: various, scrounged.
- Monitor: various, scrounged (17" monitors are two for $50 at state surplus)
- Keyboard, Mouse: $2 each at State surplus.
Application Software/Operating Systems
- "Office" applications (word processor, spreadsheet etc.)
Open Office Suite (Open Source version of StarOffice - no charge)
- Word-compatible Word Processor
- Excel-compatible Spreadsheet
- Powerpoint compatible multimedia
- Runs under both Windows and Linux
- Web Browser (Opera) (We now strongly recommend FireFox)
- Email Client (Eudora) (We now strongly recommend Thunderbird)
- Games (various)
- Mandrake Linux 9.0 (comes with OpenOffice for Linux)
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