On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:07:43 +0900, Michael Cash  ...
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>I finally completed my new DIY computer, and am very proud to say I
>did it without setting the place afire. If I had known how amazingly
>easy it is to assemble a computer from components, I would have done
>it long ago. It never dawned on me that the motherboard would come
>with a complete instruction manual on how to hook everything up.
>
>Pentium IV 2.6ghz CPU
>512mb RAM (so far)
>128mb GeForce FX 5200 video card
>DVD/CD-RW drive
>DVD/CD-ROM drive
>120gb hard drive (so far)
>floppy (for old times sake)
>15" flat screen monitor
>Windoze XP
>
>Room for a couple more externally accessible drives and about 4 more
>internal drives.
>
>It runs great and has absolutely beautiful graphics. But...
>

I was going to get around to this eventually.

I built a new machine recently as the P166 with 2G HDD was getting a bit slow.


*  Case $free (had an old power supply so had to buy a special plug for the CPU
power)
*  RAM 240M $free
*  8 Gb HDD, 9 Gb HDD, $free
*  CD-ROM $free
*  floppy $free (in the case but neither power or data connected)
*  Sound Blaster sound card $free
*  64Mb Matrox Video card $free
*  Keyboard and mouse, shitty old ones from old machine
*  Mother board, new MSI that could handle old RAM and new RAM 8,000en
*  Duron 1.3, 4500en. This is the fastest that would run with the old RAM, but I
can update to a 2.4 if I get new RAM
*  17in Mitsubishi monitor, 3,000en

Total cost, around 17,000.

I couldn't get it to boot and my boss eventually worked out I had missed a
jumper setting to set the bus at the slower speed for the Duron.

This is only part of my home studio.


*  Roland M-2 USB Midi controller, $free
*  Yamaha RX8, classic drum machine, 1,000en (>10 years old). New would have
been >100,000en
*  EMU Proteus, 18,000en sound module. These were selling at 800 English
Sterlings when new or several million Austraia Kanjarubles, 4 years or more old.
*  Korg N5 66(?)key synth, 28,000en, new >100,000en. I love this, the most
beautiful thing man has created.
*  Mackie 16 channel 4 bus mixer, $free. The pots are a bit dusty.
*  Cables. Until you set up a home studio you have no idea what cable spagetthi
is. My room looks like a cross between a Moog and a Russian spacecraft. Most
things have two audio cables, one or two midi cables and power. I've run a 10
meter earth wire from my kitchen to lounge.
*  Yamaha Stratocaster copy, $free. I don't like Strats and this one is crap and
makes my fingers hurt. But it was free.
*  Narrow body acoustic guitar with pickup, $free. Hated it a first but growing
on me.
*  Fender Jazz Bass (Japanese), black with tortoise shell, 40,000en. I wanted a
Ibanez bass (the narrow neck is ideal for me little finger) but now I love it
with all my heart. I might name it Yumiko after Yumiko Shaku.
*  USB CD burner, 3,000 en.


I haven't added that all up and I have no idea how much I have spent on trains
but it's less than 100,000, less than most people spend on a computer.




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