blackbox hasn’t gotten much serious use since I built it in January 2006 (bought my mac mini 2 months later). I fired it up the other day because I wanted a dual monitor mac without paying an arm and a leg. Well after a series of scientific pokings the hard drive is completely flakey. I don’t really need this but the hardware is new so I thought I’d offer it up for sale. All of the specific bits are covered in this Engadget article.

• 3.0GHz Pentium 4
• 2GB DDR2 Ram
• DVDRW
• 8 SATA ports, 2 banks with a RAID controller each
• 3 IDE w/RAID controller
• 7 USB2.0 ports
• Memory card reader
• Firewire A/B
• Dual TV tuner
• nVidia 6200TC RGB DVI and TV out
• 7.1 audio analog/digital in/out
• 2 1Gb ethernet ports
• Nice case, scratch on top
• Flakey (at least in Linux) 250GB SATA drive

Without the hardrive, these parts cost me $1000 in January 2006. First reasonable offer gets it.