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To: Street Walker who wrote (77)	1/31/1998 6:58:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	of 14778

>>Brand Names: why did you choose the particular Hard drive and motherboard?<< I have spent a lot of time reading motherboard reviews. The ABIT LX6 is a well respected board. There is some safety in numbers with this one as a lot of people are using it. I do not like configuring computers! I just like to turn them on. Many comments about this board are about its ease of use. There are sites where you can ask questions about this board as it is popular with the overclocking crowd. If you start with a PII 233 and then later upgrade to the PII 300 (when the price comes down), you will not have to open the case and set jumpers as it can be done in their BIOS. It is a single chip board. I think most applications will run faster/better IMO with a single CPU than a dual CPU with the same amount of RAM as the RAM is divided between the processors in the dual set-up. This wouldn't be true for multi-threaded or multi-tasking applications. SuperG is for graphics so single CPU is best for this application The Intel 440BX? chipset is due out soon. This may influence my choice of motherboards. Why the IBM harddrive? I have not spent much time on this one yet. It is one of the choices at ESC and I want it in the base configuration that will be provided "by others". I have read good things about IBM drives(larger cache, although I don't know the specifics of this drive yet). I have experienced six or so harddrive crashes and none of them were IBM. At the moment it is only my best guess for a harddrive and I plan on doing more research. Regards Zeuspaul

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