Dedicated folding box - 1.2ghz+ for $220+

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I'm expecting a large wad of cash to hit me from an ebay sale soon, so I'm thinking of making a dedicated box or two. At Newegg, I have everything but memory and hard drive for $200 (before shipping). Add $20 for 128 mb of PC133 at Crucial, and a cheapo smallo hard drive from the ditch/alley, and you have a folding box. The motherboard has integrated VGA (supposedly) and supports a 133mhz fsb. Let me know if you know of anything that would lower the cost. From Newegg:

ECS K7SEM SiS730S MICRO ATX - RETAIL Supports AMD Athlon/Duron (K7) processors & full series of Athlon/Duron CPU including the future Athlon processors. Two 168-pin DIMM sockets for 3.3V SDRAM (Ready for PC100, PC133): Maximum: 1.0GB. 2 PCI slots, 1 AGP slot. N82E16813135107
$63.00

ENHANCE 1125B 250 WATT ATX POWER SUPPLY +5V standby voltage Thermal fan speed control AMD Approved Power Supply Remote on/off control Dual line input capability Over voltage, over load protection Short circuit protection on all channels High efficiency. > 65% at full load 6 / 3 pin Optional connector for fan speed control and fan speed monitor with override function ISO 9000 Certified N82E16817103803
$20.00

AMD ATHLTHUNDERBIRD 1.2GHz 266MHz Bus SOCKET A OEM Version Stepping AXIA N82E16819103203
$96.00

NETGEAR FA311 ETHERNET NETWORK CARD 10/100 MBPS PCI - OEM N82E16833122101
$13.00

Cooler Master's DP5-6I31A CPU Heat Sink and Fan For Intel PIII CuMine up to 1.13 GHz and higher P III Tualatin up to 2.2 GHz. Celeron up to 850 MHz and higher. AMD Athlon up to 1.33 GHz. Athlon up to 1.7 GHz. Duron up to 1.7 GHz. K6-2/3 up to 600 MHz. Heat Sink Dimensions: L60 x W60 x H41 (mm). FAN Dimensions: 60 X 60 X 13 mm. Rated Voltage: 12 VDC. Rated Speed: 5400 R.P.M. Air Flow 27.72: CFM. Noise Level: 38 dB(A) N82E16835103127
$8.00

[Ploaf]

Looks like a nice setup! Give or take ten to twenty bucks you're in the ballbark really. The last three I built were
3 AyhjaY 1G@1.4 for 79$each
1 Iwill kk266+(for the main box --can you fall in love with a MB) $99 Was tempted to take my Abit KT7Raid out back and run it over with the lawnmower after installing the new board and working with these ECS boards that are incredibly stable. I didn't and it is now folding.
2 ECS K75SA for $151 total w/shipping IIRC
3 300W no name PSU's for $40 w/shipping
3 cheap noisy junk(They are pretty old) WD hd's from the pawn shop for $40 total
3 4 MB AGP cards from the pawn shop $30 total
1 CD drive and 1 Floppy from pawn shop $20
2 Millenium Glaciators, already had one - don't recall $$.
Already had a spare nic that worked. and two of the boards were LAN equipped already. and a couple of misc expenses. I think the total was around $700 or so for all three. Oh yeah and RAM, but I had most of what I needed here.

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Problem is....my parents don't want me to have another computer running 24/7, so I need to hide it, I already have a microatx case I can use for it, but the celeron in there has to go somewhere, maybe I can run it diskless (no cheap hdd noise), and hide it in the closet somewhere.

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I was going to wait until the morning to reply to these cause I'm falling asleep, but didn't want to miss this one. Reminded me of the link below. Came across it in a couple of other forums.
http://www.powerleap.com/Products/Ren370S.htm

It fits into an ISA slot and is pretty much a complete system. The only reason you plug into an ISA slot is to give it somewhere to mount. No juice flows through the slot at all. I came across a whole bunch of these a couple of days ago but this one should do as an intro. Kind of solves the problem with hiding the system ;)

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Yeah, I saw those while I was snooping around at Ars and [H]. Can't justify the cost and the Intel. I can get more computers, I'll just have to be creative.

[Ploaf]

Yeah. They were a bit pricey and the celeron thing was a turnoff. It's a nice idea though. It would be really cool if they would make it so that you could throw a duron into the PCI slot without nullifying the existing processor. Of course the weight and size of the heatsink may make that hard and the onloy time I've seen a CPU upgrade on a PCI card it took over completely and the original CPU was no longer being used.