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To: M CAHILL who wrote (463)	4/7/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (3) of 14778

>>trading... on a budget....Want something fast, with multiple monitor support. Considering the Dual Pentium II<< Analysis of 2000 stocks currently takes 8 hours. Plan to track 10,000 stocks soon. The Wall Street Analyst charting software by Omega Research indicates 16MB RAM for Win 95 and 32 MB RAM for NT as a minimum requirement. They go on to say that the software will take advantage of all available extended memory. Check with MetaStock for RAM usage. Assuming they can make use of RAM you may want to consider maxing out the RAM. Skip the second processor and spend the money on the RAM. I have run some stock chart screens and my system (48MB RAM) bogs down quickly. Also should I wait for win98 or use Windows NT? It is determined by your applications. I have tried to move into NT on several occasions over the last two years but had to retrace to Win95. If you are into multimedia types of applications stick with Win 95 for now. If you want to use NT verify that all hardware and software is compatible with NT. Win 98 will give you multimonitor options without specialized graphics cards. Most traders seem to want more than two monitors. If you want dual processors they are only supported in NT. NT has support for multimonitors using standard video cards. If you want multimonitors in Win95 you will need a specialized card. (Dell does not support the Appian multi cards in Win 95. Previous posts on this thread indicate it is compatible with win 95. Check the link Street Walker gave you for a compilation of the numerous multimonitor posts.) Any idea on what to buy or what will be available over the next few months. The PII 350 and 400 along with the motherboards that support these two chips and the 100 MHz bus will be available starting April 15 +/-. Intel's roadmap home1.swipnet.se (site seems very slow tonight) PII estimated chip prices (quantities of 1000) Message 3571702 Possible base configuration PII 333 ..................$600 LX motherboard...........$160 512 MB grade A SDRAM......$1400 8 GB EIDE harddrive.......$360 Ancillary items (case power, video, floppy, cd etc............$600 crude total $3200 Check Sag Electronics for an alternative to DELL sagelec.com Actually I think DELL does a pretty good job. I believe they use Intel motherboards and have the latest technology before many of the other big box makers. ( if you are into big box makers). Their prices can be beat for similar products. Zeuspaul

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