From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 6 5:52:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com [155.208.254.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770BE37B61D for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 05:51:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com) Received: from hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (hpcpbla.bri.hp.com [15.144.112.65]) by bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346FBF223; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:51:56 +0200 (METDST) Received: from sse0691.bri.hp.com (sse0691.bri.hp.com [15.144.0.53]) by hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id NAA26288; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:51:53 +0100 (BST) Received: (from steve@localhost) by sse0691.bri.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA02086; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:54:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from steve) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:54:12 +0100 From: Steve Roome To: Robin Melville Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA chip set Message-ID: <20000706135412.B1802@moose.bri.hp.com> References: <200007042203.PAA25510@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from robmel@innotts.co.uk on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:21:12AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:21:12AM +0100, Robin Melville wrote: > At 3:03 pm -0700 4/7/00, Chad R. Larson wrote: > >There might not be enough time for this, but: > > > >The local Fry's Electronics is having a 4th of July one day sale. > >Featured is a 700MHz AMD Athlon barebones system, including > > > > Boxed AMD K7 CPU > > mid tower ATX case with 300w power supply > > and, most important, an installed motherboard > >[...] One per customer, $399. Today only. > > > > This makes me curse. I just had a quote for the same MB/chip/128Mb > memory only, unboxed, for UKP 525 -- that's $850 0f anybody's money. > Time for US prices to come to Europe in my humble opinion... > > All the best. Picking up any old magainze [insight] I see (not incl. VAT) : K7-700 : £119 Mobo : £111 [an equivalentish motherboard (they don't do FIC SD11's =( )] case/psu : £50 [only a 250W PSU ?!] TOTAL : £280 including VAT takes this up to £330... At current exchange rates this is $498... straight out of a plainish magazine, the UK price is only $96 more than Fry's offer. Not really worth complaining about is it ? And to be fair, I bought my case for £40 with a 300W PSU in it, so I've no idea why these ppl (Insight) charge a tenner more for less ? [Memory can be bought from anywhere (crucial.com/uk) for £93. or about £100 with VAT, but I don't see memory listed on that deal above.] Anyway, this isn't very FreeBSD related, so I'll happily that the the FIC SD11 I've got has been running fine with FreeBSD-4.0 lately. I would recommend flashing to a newer BIOS though, as otherwise the SD11's freeze up on >32GB IDE drives. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message