[SGVLUG] window shopping

[matti]

Wow Dan, just thinking about how much I used to spend on systems...

anyways, doing a bit of window shopping and noticed



ASUS EeeBox EB1020-B0020 Desktop PC, AMD Dual Core C50 (1.0GHz), 1GB DDR3 Memory, 8GB SSD, ATI Radeon HD 6250
for $152 + tax ( seems to go for $220 normally.. )

http://www.buy.com/prod/asus-eeebox-eb1020-b0020-desktop-pc-amd-dual-core-c50-1-0ghz-1gb-ddr3/222870689.html


looking at a HTPC setup to drive a TV and receiver,
looks close to what I was thinking about with another
system being a media server.

hmmm.. wonder what sort of deals we will see in the
next month once black friday fever hits.


thanks
matti




----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>
To: SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:26 PM
Subject: [SGVLUG] i7-2600k coming down in price a bit...

I just noticed that microcenter has i7-2600k's for $280
if you pick them up in person.  Glad I didn't buy the i5
system I was thinking of... for an extra $50 over what I was planning,
I can get kernel compilation times of 215 seconds instead of 347
seconds, judging by
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1101154-IV-1101147IV67
and
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1107093-GR-KERNELCOM03

I've updated the system spec at the bottom of
http://kegel.com/new-computer-2011.html
though I don't know when I'll need to buy another system,
so this is really just window shopping at this point.