Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:54:12 +0100 From: Steve Roome <steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com> To: Robin Melville <robmel@innotts.co.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA chip set Message-ID: <20000706135412.B1802@moose.bri.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <v04220802b589ff337f2b@[172.16.17.20]>; from robmel@innotts.co.uk on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:21:12AM %2B0100 References: <200007042203.PAA25510@freeway.dcfinc.com> <v04220802b589ff337f2b@[172.16.17.20]>
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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
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