under $1,000 for all the pieces. an antic box with 650W PSU, 2 500 GB HDD's (I've added a lot more since then), nvidia 9800 graphics, 8 GB ddr2 1,000 Mhz FSB ram, AMD X2 3.00 Ghz CPU Tayan server grade motherboard with daughterboard management solution, Sb Audigy and Emperex 22" wide screen (1600x1050). I did a lot of looking around for the absolute cheapest prices on all of this. took me 2 months to put it all together.

its still a top gaming system even now, though I can no longer game on it.

-Eric

On Dec 6, 2010, at 4:09 AM, Mike Hoy wrote:

> . not a bad unit for fresh built 4 years ago.
> 
> Definitely a nice system. I bet it cost a pretty penny 4 years ago,
> even now it seems expensive!
>> 
>> -Eric
>> 
>> On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:12 AM, Mike Hoy wrote:
>> 
>>> I need to run Windows and Linux. It has been this way for years. I am
>>> getting fed up with it to be honest. But this isn't just about going
>>> between win and nix. I also am compelled to run at least two different
>>> distro's.
>>> 
>>> My solution was to do this:
>>> 
>>> HDD1: Ubuntu (for web dev and basically everything I need to get done)
>>> HDD2: Windows
>>> HDD3: Storage (for all backups between both 1 and 2 and all multimedia)
>>> 
>>> There is a 4th hard drive but it has failed so I will leave that out.
>>> It was running Gentoo up until it's demise.
>>> 
>>> No matter what since I've owned a computer I find myself constantly
>>> reinstalling operating systems. It has gone down over the years but
>>> it's still like 3 times a year or so.
>>> 
>>> Recently I went from 9.10 to 10.10 and that caused problems so now I'm
>>> going to have to go back to 9.10 not the end of the world but it's
>>> getting old as am I.
>>> 
>>> Anyone have the ultimate solution for how to manage this? Are you in a
>>> similar situation? What have you done to fix this problem.
>>> 
>>> Another problem is disk space. I have 2 500 gig drives (plenty for OS)
>>> but my storage drive can never be big enough. I keep all my client's
>>> data on it because I feel the need to have backups of everything for
>>> those CYA moments. They do come up.
>>> 
>>> I find myself in awe of motherboards with more than 4 SATA ports. That
>>> way I can have 8 hard drives! I could run 6 operating systems and 1
>>> storage in RAID config! I'm only somewhat joking there.
>>> 
>>> Another question has anyone done any development on chromium OS? Maybe
>>> that belongs in the dev list.
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