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To: Zeuspaul who wrote ()	6/22/1998 12:47:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

An upgrade question r james, Welcome to SI visitor status. Did you try posting to the thread? If you can send me a personal message you should be able to post to the thread unless the rules have changed. Visitors used to get a total of three posts per day combined personal message and thread. Here is the post ____________________________________________________________________ I hope you can help...perhaps even post this to the board since I'm not a member... This is my situation... I trade...often but not a daytrader. I monitor level II at webstreet which is not ideal but suites my limited bugdet. I also keep several windows (4-5) up and going at once. I had a pentium 100 with 16mg ram and it was slow. In Dec I went in for an upgrade and all they could give me was a 200 pentium (non-mmx) and they added ram so I've got like 48 or 64 now.they said my motherboard wouldnt support it a mmx. I think I have a 28.8 or 33.6 modum and a 17 inch monitor. The 200 sped things up a lot but now....i think my hardrive is full. I've got a 1.2 hardrive and I know very little about deleting stuff and that kind of thing. Basicly I use my computer for stocks....research and trading and that kind of thing but I dont know much else. Most I've ever done was install the modum a few years ago. I'm sure all my other stuff is old as it came with the Pentium 100 that I got years ago. Right now....I'm running out of memory it says when I have like 5 windows going. Sometimes I cant even delete mail untill I close all windows. And it seems most things that have any kind of graphics are real slow. So here I am....very limited technical knowledge and a limited budget wanting to get the most bang for my buck. I WONT spend more than $1200 absolute max but really want to get by on less. Much less if possible. Is this old system worth upgrading ?? Or should i just start from scratch ? I've got a 17 inch monitor. Is it worth buying something upgradable or should I pretty much resign myself that in a year I'll need a newer better one ? How important is the MMX ? vIDEO card ? Faster modum ?? All the other stuff ? Help me here folks....tell me what to buy and who to buy it from. I'm interested in having 2 monitors going at once. But not if its going to cost me a big bundle. Oh and I think one of these old harddrives (ive got a c and a d) are acting up. I'm inclined to spend about $800 and buy a pentium 233mmx with 64 mg ram and a 6.4 harddrive with a 32x cd (ive got 6x now !) Is that the thing to do or should I perhaps buy a harddrive, a modum, a video card and whatever else i need and keep this 200 (non mmx) ??? THANKS very much for any and all help. I'm looking for the balance between cost & performance with an eye on upgradeability and such. Again...with NO technical knowledge. I'm a real neophyte when it comes to computers.... AGAIN please post to the dream machine board too. ROMT2@HOTMAIL.COM

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