[OpenIndiana-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment

[Michelle Knight]

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.