<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Brian Long <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:briandlong@gmail.com">briandlong@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Travis Tabbal <<a href="mailto:travis@tabbal.net">travis@tabbal.net</a>> wrote:<br><br>> I'd love it if they made something available for around $200, that's about<br>
> what it costs me to build a nice FE box now,<br><br></div>Travis,<br>Would you care to elaborate on how you make a nice FE box for $200? :)<br></blockquote>
<div>We'd all like to know!</div>
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<div>The latest VDPAU capable FE I built cost me $273.95(excluding shipping) from the Egg.</div>
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<div>It was an Inwin BM639 case/power supply for $84.99</div>
<div>945GCLF2 MB and Atom 330 processor for $79.99</div>
<div>Sparkle 8400GS 512MB PCI card for $54.99</div>
<div>2GB memory for $18.99</div>
<div>80GB HDD for $34.99</div>
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<div>In addition I had to replace the chipset fan (which was loud!). I had a 40mm fan already - otherwise that would have been another $5 or so. I probably could have found a cheaper HDD but I wanted a Seagate, and that was the smallest capacity that I clicked on.</div>
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<div>It works a treat (plays back Blurays without a problem) using Ubuntu 8.10 and Jean-Yves's 0.21 repo.</div>
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<div>I need to build another frontend, and would love to come in closer to $200 (for similar functionality)</div>
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