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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeddie88 who wrote (10474)	2/11/2000 6:43:00 PM
From: jw	Respond to of 14778

it has a built-in sound card to compensate., Sue, some would discourage Video/Sound on MotherBoard. Better to use Card. The Abit VA6 has sound, Bill has his disconnected and uses a Sound card. No problem. 5 or 6 pCI slots seems to be max. You lose the last PCI should you use ISA with the overlap/shared. Seems to be a compatible problem with the High Powered products nowadays. Sorry no suggestions from here<g>, Would hate to be assembling one on my own. Regards, have a Nice WeekEnd, /jw

To: Zeddie88 who wrote (10474)	2/11/2000 7:25:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Any thoughts? Yes two thoughts. One if you wanted to get a new computer now I suggest you use the motherboard your computer store recommended, the Asus P3B-F. The pros are: 1. 6 PCI slots. 2. It uses Intel's proven 440BX chip set. 3. Ii is compatible with the Matrox G400 video card. The cons are: 1. No 133 MHz front side bus. 2. No AGP 4X graphics support. 3. The maximum speed CPU Asus shows on their site the P3B-F supports is a 600 MHz PIII. Conclusion using a P3B-F motherboard your computer will not be as fast as a P3V4X computer. But a computer built with the P3B-F motherboard will still be an excellent trading machine. My second thought is to suggest you wait until the 4 quarter of this year or later before you buy a new computer. The reason I say this is because the next thing I see coming that will make a significant increase in the speed of a computer without the cost penalty of Rambus RAM is double data rate SDRAM. However, the press reports I have seen predict the earliest availability of computers with double data rate SDRAM is late in 2000.