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[Sp!ke]

Small PC BIG PICTURE

Maff: Does your supplier get Evo Notebooks in? We may well be going that route & we generally get through around 300 notebooks per year.

 

[Maff]

Hi Spike,

Unfortuantly not. The suppliers only deal in PC boxes and Sun equipment.

If you want brand new SUN server(s).......... how about a new Nextra server direct from sun for $6000 less than the RRP

 

[paulrstaylor]

Originally posted by Sp!ke
Small PC BIG PICTURE

Maff: Does your supplier get Evo Notebooks in? We may well be going that route & we generally get through around 300 notebooks per year.

Spike,

Surely you are buying direct from a Disty??

 

[Fudger]

Yeah, sorry about the big pics

 

[Sp!ke]

Paul:

Yes we will be, but the prices on the desktops seem well cheap.

We buy direct from Dell at the moment but thats gonna change pretty soon.

 

[fuzzer]

PC looks good dude , im looking for something like that to sit below my Tv and act as a DIVX server on my network.

WHere did you get it and how much was it?

Originally posted by Fudger
Guys, I have just moved (last week) from a tower unit to an SFF shuttle pc. Here are some pics to give you an idea of size.

It's about 20cm wide x 23cm deep x 18cm high.

Spec, P4 2.4 northbridge, 256mb pc2700 ram, 2 x 40gb drives, Ricoh DVD/CD writer, MSI NVidia 9200 garphics card and an ADSL modem. Cooling via 1 80mm case fan keeping system temp in the 40's.

Not bad for such a small unit.

Cheers.

:bannana:

 

[Sp!ke]

Some of the new DVD players will play MPeg4 cd's now.

I think Scan had a cheap one on todays special recently made by Kiss.

 

[Koolvin]

scan = scam

 

[Fudger]

Fuzzer m8, ceck out www.kustompcs.co.uk and click on mini cases.

The SB51G was £239 inc vat as a barebones unit.

Cheers.

 

[Shude]

Originally posted by Fudger
Fuzzer m8, ceck out www.kustompcs.co.uk and click on mini cases.

Before buying anything from Kustom please check prices elsewhere as Kustom tend to be on the expensive side, they do however stock a lot of nice things so if you just want to buy from one shop they are prolly the people to buy from.

Good news everyone!

I went to my friends house and ráped his old pc (which was being used as a coffee table) for parts.

After some testing we found that either the board or the cpu on my old pc was dead, the ATX power supply refused to power up, I suppose because it was waiting for the "on" signal from the board, which the board either didn't send because it was fried or it didn't send because it knew something else would fry if it DID power on.

We swapped the Asus P2B-F for a P2B and the Celeron-a 400 for what I think is another Celeron-a 400. About 11pm the machine fired into life and gave some silly error message about the NT bootloader so that means I either did a bad cable-job or I need to check which drives and in what order the CMOS/BIOS thinks I have setup.

Hopefully tonight after work I can fix that up and get the poor pc up and running again!

btw I am still buying a new pc!

 

[rirhill]

I know loads of you are in IT. But I bought the bits from the following sites and they sell the Shuttle.
CCL

Scan
Hope this helps. You computer buffs can you recommend a good low price Radeon card please?
Thanks
Ian

 

[Shude]

Originally posted by rirhill
You computer buffs can you recommend a good low price Radeon card please?

Be careful Ian there is a bewildering array of cards all using the Radeon chipsets. Some are amazing, some are rubbish. This is usually reflected in the price, I have been told however that the 9700 based cards are to be avoided right now due to some instability problems. I've also been told there are some special 9500 cards knocking around that have the performance but may be lacking a feature or two, not that the average person (myself included) would notice. I'm getting a GeForce card (against earlier reservations) instead of the "equivalent" Radeon card and it's saving me about £40, the card is £153.34 inclusive of VAT.

 

[Shude]

Originally posted by GDC200
I have been told by my auditors that I need to get a +450mhz notebook in order to run some software that produces reports the way they want them.

Why does it have to be a notebook? Notebooks are expensive and fiddly, a desktop pc would be a LOT cheaper and would do the same thing, only I guess you can't throw it into a bag and carry it out of the office quite as easily!

 

[rirhill]

Shude
My only problem is drivers for Creative are normally rubbish (hard to find and troublesome) thats whats has pushed me towards Radeon.

 

[Shude]

Originally posted by rirhill
My only problem is drivers for Creative are normally rubbish (hard to find and troublesome) thats whats has pushed me towards Radeon.

Creative manufactures cards, ATi make chipsets for cards (Radeon in this case) . I can't remember which chipset Creative use for their vga/3d cards but there are lots of companies that make radeon based cards, have a look around, often there are significant price differences between cards of the same chipset (and technically the same spec) the only differences being bundled software/hardware and brand name.

 

[fuzzer]

i got an raedon 7500 64 meg in my laptop which is a lot more stable than the geforce 4 32 i had in my old laptopwhich kept crashing and made it sooo hot.

( i change my laptop every 2 months if you are wondering )

new laptop has a 16" screen on it too :bannana: :bannana:

 

[Shude]

Originally posted by fuzzer
i got an raedon 7500 64 meg in my laptop which is a lot more stable than the geforce 4 32 i had in my old laptopwhich kept crashing and made it sooo hot.

Some graphics cards seem to get quite hot. My pc is going to be silent so I decided to get one of these to go on the gfx card to replace the noisey fan:

http://www.quietpc.com

 

[Koolvin]

check out www.bit-tech.net its a cool site and has kool forums

 

[Brian WH]

Originally posted by Koolvin
check out www.bit-tech.net its a cool site and has kool forums

Isn't it run by someone called the "Modfather".

 

[Fudger]

Before buying anything from Kustom please check prices elsewhere as Kustom tend to be on the expensive side, they do however stock a lot of nice things so if you just want to buy from one shop they are prolly the people to buy from.

Shude, I must admit I did look around and CCL were £255 agaist £239 at Kustom. If anyone finds it a lot cheaper than Kustom, please let me know as my m8 wants one too.

This is for a shuttle SB51G with AGP.

Thanks.