Heh, here in.ro, at my previous SoftDevCo I've built all our workstations from components (12PCs + 1 dual power source fileserver, 1 dual CPU test server) in 3 working days from components. I think one week (aka 7 days) is enough for 60 PCs with another one to help disasembly. Now about price, I know in Eastern Europe PC compnents are pretty expensive rather then US, but here with $520 (taxes included) you can put together: a Athlon XP 1800+/Cooler, 512MB DDR, MB/KT266A, DiamondMax D740X, 40GB HDD. I think that's enough for a usual workstation and the difference from what you have is quite big. Anyway I'll always choose to build myself all workstations even if my real job is Java serverside programming. And another reason here in.ro is that the Company that offers best prices for components sell full systems only with M$ Win installed (another damn useless +100$ software).
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Heh, here in .ro, at my previous SoftDevCo I've built all our workstations from components (12PCs + 1 dual power source fileserver, 1 dual CPU test server) in 3 working days from components. I think one week (aka 7 days) is enough for 60 PCs with another one to help disasembly. .ro is that the Company that offers best prices for components sell full systems only with M$ Win installed (another damn useless +100$ software).
Now about price, I know in Eastern Europe PC compnents are pretty expensive rather then US, but here with $520 (taxes included) you can put together: a Athlon XP 1800+/Cooler, 512MB DDR, MB/KT266A, DiamondMax D740X, 40GB HDD.
I think that's enough for a usual workstation and the difference from what you have is quite big.
Anyway I'll always choose to build myself all workstations even if my real job is Java serverside programming. And another reason here in
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