On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:52:59 +0900, "Ed" <gwbush@whitehouse.gov>
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>Seems like prices have changed since I last thought about assembling my own
>computer. Of course, I was pricing the individual components in Japan so
>that might have made a difference.

I thought about it today, and since I got 10% of the price back as
shopping points from Yamada Denki, where I purchased all the parts,
that 103,000 to get the parts comparable to the computer in the
advertisement Bryan posted (89,000) drops to 92,700. If I had chosen
the slower HDD and the 256mb RAM instead of 512 (like the one in the
ad), then I would have come out ever-so-slightly cheaper by building
it myself.
>
>Maybe my next computer will be a frankenputer.

Go for it, dude. There's nothing particularly hard about it. I was
surprised to learn that there is standardization among the
motherboards. So all I had to do was make sure to get an ATX case to
hold my ATX board, and everything matched up just fine. I was even
more surprised to find that the motherboard package contained
easy-to-understand instructions (in several languages) on how to go
about the whole process. All the screws for mounting it were included,
as were all the cables for hooking up the drives. Hooking up the wires
from the power supply was pretty much a no-brainer as well. It had
instructions on all that too. There was one 6-wire connector left over
which gave me some concern, but a little googling soon revealed that
it is an auxiliary and I didn't need it on my system. So, like my
weiner, it just sort of dangles there unnoticed and unused.






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