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yotsuya:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on June 30, 2011, 12:35:00 pm ---you can probably find a 15 incher pretty cheap on CL/freecycle.

As for the drive.  I would say just use a SD card reader like Vigo did in his SNES build.  I would PM him for details.  You aren't going to need a whole lot of space for what you plan on putting on there

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I recently (last weekend) got a 19" CRT and a 21" CRT for $5 each on CL. You just have to keep looking.  :cheers:
D_Harris:

--- Quote from: RyoriNoTetsujin on June 30, 2011, 10:02:15 am ---
--- Quote from: D_Harris on June 30, 2011, 12:45:44 am ---1) Does anyone have any recommendations for a 15" LCD monitor and more importantly a hard drive that is not a power hog?

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For the monitor I would say hit up Craigslist or Freecycle. All of NYC's Freecycle community is highly active, including SI. (My gf is a moderator, so be nice and follow the rules! LOL.)  Since you're looking for a 4:3 monitor (and everybody is upgrading to 16:9 and 16:10 these days) you should have one pretty quickly.

As for the hard drive, if budget isn't an issue, get an IDE solid state drive (they're out there)... otherwise you're looking at a 2.5" laptop drive.  Silentpcreview.com has a great write-up on recommended hard drives. I bring that up because, generally, quiet parts use less power.

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I've been a member of the group "StatenIslandNYFreecycle" for two or three years, but never bothered because I don't know how the site is supposed to work. But I'll keep that in mind.

If you wait long enough you can get a free monitor via Craigslist. I threw away my last 15" LCD monitor when the power supply, which used to get hot enough to cook an egg, died.

Nevertheless, if there was a way to just use one of my 8GB flash drives without have to install a hard drive, that would be ideal. (And as I mentioned the EPIA ITX motherboard I have has a TV-Out.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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