Store Bought VS. Home Built

Both contain the same Motherboard! Able to upgrade to 733 mhz Pentium III
  ABS Multimedia 6       Home Built  
Price (w/ shipping) Model Brand Component Brand Model Store Price (w/shipping)
included below s1854 TYAN Motherboard TYAN s1854 essencom.com $ 95.00
| 500 mhz s370 Intel Celeron Processor Intel Celeron 500 mhz s370 w/ fan onvia.com $ 77.56
| 64 MB PC100 DIMM Generic Memory PNY 128 MB PC100 DIMM onvia.com $ 107.99
| 10 gig Maxtor Hard Drive Western Digital 20 gig CompUSA $ 130.00
| 52X Super CD-Rom Artec CD-ROM Artec 50X Super CD-Rom outpost.com $ 39.95
| Mid-Tower ATX 250W In Win Case Antec KS288 techstore.com $ 81.40
| 3.5 in. floppy drive Generic Floppy Drive Teac 3.5 in. floppy drive onvia.com $ 14.33
V Windows 98 Microsoft OS Microsoft Windows 98 (OEM) automateddistributing.com $ 57.00
$ 654.00 Corel Office Corel Software Sun StarOffice sun.com $ -
$5.00 PCI 56K Zoom Modem Zoom Modem Blaster PCI CompUSA $ 5.00
$34.00 SB PCI 128 Creative Sound Card Creative SB PCI 128 compuplus.com $ 34.00
$ -   None Video Card None     $ -
$ 693.00 Total:         Total: $ 642.23
            Savings (vs. Prebuilt) $ 50.77
            % of cost 92.67%


Last Updated on 6/13/00
By Eric J. Klooster
Email: eric_klooster@yahoo.com