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To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (20613)8/23/1997 8:24:00 PM
From: Jack Cardwell   of 58727
 
Lisa,
I know I haven't posted much in the last few weeks but between my full-time work and my moonlight graphics work I've only had time to skim SI lately..

First I need to correct a statement I made in a previous post concerning getting 1 meg of cache on the motherboard.. I thought I had read that the boards which support this feature where available but I can't seem to find that information again nor can I find any of the wholesalers I deal with that are aware of any.

Now on to your posts and those that follwed in response (20613, 20621, 20623, 20642 & 20643).. For the most part they are very complete and answer your questions.

In post 20643, the following system was rcomended:
<< Choices :

Pentium II 266 w/ 512K cache
64 Meg EDO with ECC +$40 from base config.
7 Gb EIDE Drive +$122
No monitor -- price it seperately -- -378$
8 Mb Matrox Millenium video -- base
12/24x EIDE CDROM
MS Office Professional +199$
Yamaha Sound card -- base
Speakers --base config (tempted to say none. This is
work right? Walkman headpnones work great,
your call, you know your work environ.)>>

Great system..

The only recomendations I can add is that if possible to get a specific HD man'f I would get either the IBM DeskStar series or the Maxtor 7 gig Diamond Series. Both are screamers with <9.5 ms access. and are great for graphics.

Most people don't realize the impact the HD speed has on the system. IMHO a fast HD is more important than the fastest CPU (great if you have both :).

Also Viewsonic has come out with a line of monitors. I can't think of the name but they are Viewsonic monitors with a different name on them and are 20%+ cheaper. I'll find the name and post it.

And the other thing I'd like to add is that the CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor)/BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) settings are VERY inmportant. Each motherboard/CPU/RAM/cache combination is different and the CMOS/BIOS must be tweaked for that confiruation.

I'm not sure how must Dell tweaks their systems as far as the CMOS is concerned but it can make the difference between a very good systen and a awesome system. I've had systems that saw a 30% to 40% performance increase with one or two changes in the CMOS settings.

Just my added thoughts..
Jack
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