Thinking of acquiring a PC

[Louis Dias]

www.tigerdirect.com

'nuff said

Where you from, I have an Athlon 1100 machine I could get rid of.

[amigakid]

hey lou,
Bought some cd32 games from ya on ebay a few times .  anyways you can get a 1.4 ghz dell laptop for 499.00.  Cheap, affordable and dell actually is pretty good with customers.  Or you can get a low ender for about 350-400 bucks (tower), but personally i'd get the laptop.

Ryan

[textory]

If you're skilled enough and there's a trustworthy store near you, you could buy single components and build up your own pc. Parts for a low-end pc would cost 250-300 Euro (case, cpu, mobo, cooler, ram, hd, gpu, dvd-rom) - of course it depends on the performance you prefer.

In case you prefer a custom built pc choose dell or get a mac mini. (I would take the mac mini, which comes with MacOS X. Dell terrorizes its customers with Windows XP Home Edition ... scary!)

[PGit]

@ lou_dias

I'm from England, south Lincolnshire to be more precise.

@ Everyone
I've won a mother board on ebay, it has AGP8, FSB 400mhz for £23.

[SamOS39]

just set up PC-Task on your A1200! Then you wont need to spend money on a PC since your Amiga can just emulate 1

 :-)

[bloodline]

PGit wrote:
@ Everyone
I've won a mother board on ebay, it has AGP8, FSB 400mhz for £23.

What CPU socket?
What RAM does it take?

[PGit]

Socket a and it takes DDR400, I don't think it's top of the range but for £23 i'm not complaining.

[jkirk]

socket A? sounds like athlon xp motherboard.:-)

[jkirk]

PGit wrote:
Can anyone reccomend a good value graphics card. The most graphically taxing software I have is probably something like hitman 2. My dad's PC uses an ATI Rage fury Pro and that seems to run my stuff quite well.

if that is all your dad has most any geforce or radeon videocard will do for you. now if you want to get some newer games make sure you buy the best card you can afford.

[InTheSand]

SamOS39 wrote:
just set up PC-Task on your A1200! Then you wont need to spend money on a PC since your Amiga can just emulate 1

 :-)

Hehe!  :-D

Start it on an installation of DOS6.2 and watch it just zzz zzzzzZ ZZZZ along!

Have there been any PC emulator ports (e.g. the likes of Bochs) to PPC-based Amigas or to OS4?

 - Ali

[Louis Dias]

What's up Amigakid.  Thanks for the purchase...in my slow quest to clean out my basement, I'll find more CD32 software in the next couple of months.

www.tigerdirect.com has the cheapest parts on the internet and have good return policies.

I've always built my own PC.  Several of the companies I've worked for have been buying from the since 1998.

If you want a pre-built PC, their SystemMAX brand is excellent.  They even sell overstock and opened box stuff.

I bought my Samsung 50" DLP HDTV ready widescreen TV from them for $1499.  Can't beat that.

[PGit]

I've heard that some of the cheaper cases have rather thin metal that can bend. Can anyone reccomend a good case?

[Star69]

Probably not what you're looking for, but this is the daddy... (and pricey :-o)