[geeks] Mini-ITX cases/systems/vendors

[velociraptor]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:05:35 -0500, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:17:24PM +0000, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > What about these "XPC" barebones systems - they are without CD, HD, RAM, or CPU, but are priced from $180-200 + S/H from tigerdirect.com...
> > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1210
> 
> That's similar to what I just built for Amy a couple of days ago:
> 
> http://www.mrbill.net/box
> 
> e-Cube barebones case, Celeron 2.4Ghz CPU, 256M PC2700 DDR RAM, a 40G HD
> I had lying around, $20 SBLive! sound card (she didn't like the onboard
> sound), and a $39 (!) 52x CD-R/16X DVD-ROM.  All together, was around $400.

Speaking of which, anyone have a favorite source for DVD-* drives? 
Specifically, I'm looking to get one of the dual layer writers, but I
could use a DVD-ROM as well.

Thx.
=Nadine=