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Yeah, vendors. I know about Pricewatch, but I don't know if I can stand just going and buying something from a random hole in the wall place. Back when I knew about such things, we'd get reports about one of the local vendors who would repackage bad boards and sell them again, things like that, that's all I want to avoid. I know there's no way around things like "restocking fees" and I'm willing to roll the dice that I get good parts, but...
As far as what parts, I'm looking at various mobo combos with Athlon 1.33s. That seems to be the best price/performance ratio right now.
I also want to swap out a p3-500 I have with the cheapest available Duron board, whatever that currently is. That box hardly needs to do anything (it does run G@H of course), but I need it to survive. Right now it is intermittently alarming, every few days, probably from some sort of fan failure or temperature problem.
I also need a new SCSI drive for the system that runs the Cellar. So um I guess I do need a pretty good number of parts.
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