Need help building a cheap rig...

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Limp Gawd
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This summer besides summer school I'm getting really bored so I'm thinking of making a cheapo rig and trying to learn linux or something in my spare time.

I have a few parts left over from gutting an old rig but thanks to college not alot of money.

I have an old AMD 2000+ XP (T-Bird), 512 MB DDR 266 ram (cheapo), Asus A7n8x Dlx motherboard, G4 MX 440 Video Card.

Is it even efficient to use this junk these days?

I'll probably need to buy new CD drive, HDD, Case, PSU... Think it can be done for $35 overall?
 
just to learn linux? its perfect. heck, you don't even need a HDD, lol. well, if you want one, get a used one off of the forums... much easier/cheaper that way, especially for a spare rig. If you're in the socal area, I've got a case/psu you can have for free, just come pick it up. :D
 
Just use a cardboard box for a case :)

Enginurd is right, that hardware is enough to learn Linux on. I've run Linux on a P3 866Mhz with 512MB PC100 RAM and it ran relatively well.
 
My former print server was an old Toshiba Pentium 100Mhz laptop running FreeBSD. :D
 
Some of you guys are insane. I'm a bit clumsy and I doubt I could do without a case.

So I looked around and it's probably going to be do-able for the price range I'm looking for.

I've always wanted a Lian-Li but I doubt I could afford one right now. Do you guys know of a similar alternative?

This is obviously going to be a beater rig so I know I'll probably get what I pay for.
 
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