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From: lairdt@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Tom Laird)
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Subject: Re: building a clone: good stuff vs. trash?
Keywords: clone,homebuilt,motherboard
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Date: 15 Feb 91 20:19:20 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.184449.21942@cs.umn.edu> ianhogg@cs.umn.edu (Ian J. Hogg) writes:
> [Stuff deleted]
>
>  I total it and I get about $3035 without the mouse.  I'm picking up a new 
>system today that is configured as follows:
>
>	PC Express 386-33mhz system			2530
>          Wedge Motherboard w/64k cache
>          4MB ram
>          1.2MB and 1.4 MB floppies (TEAC)
>          Panasync 1381c monitor
>          DOS 4.1 installed
>          100 MB IDE drive
>          Focus 16 bit SVGA with 1MB
>
>       I put together the following upgrades:
>         Diamond SpeedStar 1MB SVGA                        79
>         Seagate ST1144A disc drive                        40
>         Mini Tower case                                   39
>
>      total price:                                       2688
>
>If you added a second floppy to your recommedation we'd have about a $400
>price difference with the major discrepancy being 4Mb of RAM.  Can I get
>4 MB ram for less than $400? 

First of all I'd get a different chassis.  The smaller chassis run hotter
and are a big pain to upgrade at any point - not enough space.
I also would avoid an IDE drive, especially a Seagate. IDE drives are SLOW
and turn out about 500-600k per second throughput - a bad idea to hook up
such a slow drive to a fast system.