[ILUG] [OT] Hardware Shopping

[Baldwin_James at emc.com]

Declan, I would have to agree with you !!!

heh, I am selling a small bird.  It is going 'cheap'

SD32MX64-133 256MB DIMM SDRAM - 133 Mhz IR£40.82 IR£48.98 
SD16MX64-133 128MB DIMM SDRAM - 133 Mhz IR£23.32 IR£27.98 
AMD-ATHLON-1200 AMD Athlon 1200Mhz - Socket A IR£133.32 IR£159.98 
AMD-ATHLON-1333 AMD Athlon 1333Mhz - Socket A IR£166.66 IR£199.99 
AMD-ATHLON-1400 AMD Athlon 1400Mhz - Socket A IR£204.16 IR£244.99 


-----Original Message-----
From: Declan de Lacy Murphy [mailto:decdelmur at iol.ie]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 1:57 PM
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] [OT] Hardware Shopping


IT Direct in Parliament street are very good - especially on  price, ring
them for most up to date prices.
www.itdirect.ie
I've always found them very good.

Declan


On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:19:06 Raf wrote:

> Heya guys. Having had too much time on my hands recently, I've decided
> that my next machine will be a DIY type job. I know lots of people here
> have had experience with that, so basically I'm wondering where the
> cheapest place to get (decent) components is? Scan always look good for
> for processors and motherboards but does it really work out after
> including shipping cost and converting the money into punts? I know
> peats
> have pretty cheap memory atm (Pc133 256mbs for 70!) so thats probably
> where I'll get the RAM.
>
> So where would you recommend?

I specced out a reasonably good machine at the weekend for my brother
(use: mostly 3d rendering).

 From Scan it came out at IR£870 (incl. VAT & delivery)
 From IT Direct it came out at IR£1040 (incl. VAT)
Peats was looking slightly more expensive on most of the components so I
didn't bother getting a final price from them.

This was KT7A, 1.2GHz Athlon, 768MB, 40GB, DVD, CD-RW, GE-Force 2MX,
SB512, floppy, 300WPSU, Case, No monitor.

I know some people have had problems with both Scan and IT Direct, but
I've not. I haven't ordered often from Scan, but IT Direct are just around
the corner from me and I get stuff there regularly (and they were dead
helpful, friendly and efficient when I had to get a DVD-Drive replaced).
They have 256MB PC133 for £50.

Martin.

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