Thanks for the Invitation to come to this thread.
Zeus and I, among others have been talking about
building a "DREAM MACHINE" to run several monitors off of.
Its been on another thread, so its great this thread has
been created. Lets share ideas so we can all benefit.
Here is a copy of a post from two other threads I've been
hashing this topic out on..Daytraders -tricks of the trade
and MSFT (netscape vs explorer)..............
Zeus....I've been spending most of my free time calling
vendors about the best computer components that are
value oriented. There are lot of new things coming out
in the next month such as 100mhz motherboards that will
become industry standard replacing the 66 boards.
Chip prices are falling like the sky of Chicken Little.
Intel is comming out with their 333Mhz which will ensue
a drop in price of their other chips. Then AMD will come
out with the long awaited 300Mhz which will outperform
the Pentium II 300 and at a tremendous savings compared
to Intel and one can use it on their existing nonPentium II
motherboard. Intel's Socket 1 technology (PII)is being phased out
according to Intel's announced last friday. They are going to go back to
an upgraded Slot 7 technology. Pentium Pro never caught on. The
industry remained with Slot 7. PII kinda caught on. The industry (AMD
and Cyrix) remained with Slot 7. Now Intel decides to go back and
become Slot 7 again. In the meantime, they made a lot of profit by
selling specialized Pentium II Socket 1 motherboards. IMO, its called
job security. Keep changing things to hood wink people into buying
their products. Intel is great at that.
Modems: yea there's the big scoop about ADSL. (AWRE and
WSTL had nice moves today because of INTC/CPQ/MSFT news
conferance. I'm not buying in. No one is fooling me...
cable modems will become the industry standard, so I'm
buying Diamond's Shot Gun (3COM is also coming out with
similar technology, but hasn't been announced yet) to tie
me over until Cable is available in my area. Probably in
about 2 years.
RAM: I hear alot about this - You need alot of it!
Bottom of the line is EDO Ram. Then SDRAM which is becoming
the standard in computer packages. Then there is RDRAM which
is super fast and the newly anounced ESRAM which is super dupper
fast! I haven't analyzed prices, though. pricewatch.com
Discussion on RAM at SI thread: RAMTRONIAN's Cache Inn [RMTR]
(Some of these guru's could help us out quite a bit to get this
thread humming)..extend an invitation, there as well as to Charles
and et al from the MSFT thread. :-)
As far as running multimonitors, its the way to go.
Either Appian or ColorGraphics cards...sill researching
and maintaining communication with the techies at each company.
Appian IMO is more advanced. They are used in Dell's corporate line.
Window NT is a definite must. Forget about Windows 98.
NT is faster, runs multiple programs better, etc. This has
been told to me so many times by techies that I no longer
question it.
Monitors: zdnet.com
Take a look at Oct 7th edition for Editors Choice on Monitors.
As for 21' monitors, View Sonic earned the Award last Summer.
Thanks for alerting me about the "Build Your Own PC" thread.
I'll copy this and move the discussion there so that this
thread can get back to Ken's purpose. Thanks everyone.
I think everyone has been enlighted by the hashing out of
what to do to have the right hardware for Daytrading effectively
at a valued price, hence, multimonitors off one PC.
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