| Price |
Equipment |
| $980 |
Two Pentium Pro 200mhz CPUs |
| 450 |
Tyan Titan Pro motherboard |
| 250 |
ATI All-In-Wonder graphics/video capture card |
| 220 |
four 16 megabyte SIMMs |
| 210 |
two 32 megabyte SIMMs |
| 210 |
3.5 gigabyte hard drive |
| 150 |
Some cheap monitor |
| 110 |
ATX case |
| 100 |
Creative WebCam II digital video camera |
| 90 |
Cambridge PCworks sound system |
| 80 |
Soundblaster sound card |
| 80 |
Wacom PenPartner graphics tablet |
| 60 |
A cool trackball |
| 60 |
Keytronic wireless keyboard |
| 50 |
Mitsumi 6x CDrom |
| 20 |
Inexpensive floppy drive |
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| $3110 |
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This was the first PC I ever put together from scratch, and it was not as much fun as I thought it would
be. My only recommendation for people who are planning on building a system for the first time, is
build a system that you don't need and build it from cheap parts. It's more fun if you aren't worried
about blowing up your 450$ motherboard.
Right now this is my primary system at home. It's dual boot Win95 and FreeBSD, but I primarily use
Win95 because of the Win95 applications and peripherals that I use. I'm not sure what the future of this
system is, but I'm going to need a faster system because Photoshop is really dragging it's butt when I
use my Wacom PenPartner.
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