To be honest, I tend to go for new equipment rather than second hand. You can get slightly less than leading edge for good money, which means you get a warantee as well.
I use a company called "scan" scan.co.uk ... and I look up the boards and then use the "related products" section to see what matches in terms of processor and memory, in relation to price. I'm in the UK, so I call them up and I can have a conversation like, "I've got £300 to spend on a mobo/processor and ram. It'll be for a desktop and I need about 4gig of RAM. What can you do me?" and they'll talk me through a couple of options. In five to ten minutes, the deal is done. I recently picked up a motherboard, i3 processor and 4gig of ram for £200. But I had a £20 nvidea card to put in it, because I get better results than Intel graphics with Linux/Unix. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
