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If you're putting this together to go after mcse, then you'd do better to go
down to your local liquidator or computer show and pick up four 486 or
low-spec Pentium machines.  To do _all_ the exercises in the MCSE training
you need four boxes (W9x workstation, NT workstation, NT Server, Novell
server--you can get a 3-user Netware 5 for $18.00, so don't let this last
throw you) and none of these should be the machine that you use to do useful
work.  The local liquidator has IBM 486 machines for about 80 bucks and IBM
and Compaq Pentium machines for about 200.  Add a keyboard, monitor,
switchbox, CD-ROM drives, and some network cards and cable, and you're
there, for maybe $1400 total.

If you're going to build a box, then go over to Microsoft's site and check
the NT Server compatibility list before you buy _anything_.

Also, make sure that your "any ol' hard drive" is big enough to hold the
pieces you need.  500 meg would be good, a gig would be better.

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--John

Reply to jclarke at eye bee em dot net
Nathan Emerson <Nate@Eisle.com> wrote in message
news:369cbc2f.0@news1.ibm.net...
>I'm about to buy the parts for a 2nd system in order to practice
networking.
>I thought I'd check in with the experts before I take the plunge.  This is
>the plan:
>    300A Celeron--Overclocked to 450
>    Abit BH6 Mboard
>    64 100Sdram
>    Any ol' hard drive
>
>Any advice, before I start looking for the lowest price per part?
>
>Nate
>
>