On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Nicolas Will <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nico@youplala.net">nico@youplala.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 13:03 -0700, Travis Tabbal wrote:<br>
> Considering the cost of the supported GPUs, it seems that the 3Ghz<br>
> dual core CPUs are the way to go for now.<br>
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A 8400 card is about $30 at Newegg, using passive cooling, without fan.<br>
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<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121235" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121235</a><br>
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and this one is among the expensive models, too much RAM on it.<br>
</blockquote><div><br><br>Hmmm... I missed that, thanks for the pointer. It will be interesting to see how it shakes out as NVidia debugs the driver. If one could use a $30 vid card and a slowish CPU (1Ghz Single Core?) it would make a pretty cheap frontend. <br>
</div></div><br>At that point, the case might be the most expensive single part. :) <br>