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To: Kayaker who wrote (23727)	12/9/2001 12:44:55 PM
From: Ron McKinnon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

I posted this to nemer on another thread, copied here: I'm thinking about helping the economy by buying a new PC I've read your posts on the subject and Larry's on the Dell's and a few months worth of posts on the "computer learning" and "build your own threads" the reason I want a new one is that my "new" one (P11--400, 256 ram) is now "old" and my old one (backup computer) is almost a doorstop my trading computer works fine 90% of the time but once in a while it slows down or locks up I think that is a result of the increasing complexity of the various programs I run (more complex with each update) and the fact I run more windows, graphs etc than in the past also any java thingie seems to be an issue at times it also crashes (blue screen) once or twice a day I hear/hope that Win XP is much more stable than Win 98 I'm pretty sure I'll have the local pc shop build it for me like my last one one of the main reasons is that when I have a problem I just put the box under my arm and they fix it fast while I wait at a decent price the quote I got yesterday was $800 (seems decent)for: P4 1.5 gig 512 ram 20 gig HD (I use less than 2gig) I dont have the specs on which motherboard very basic sound card etc as I don't care about that stuff will have XP which is $100 of the price and he will toss in a basic MSFT product so I'll have excel and word that price is without video cards which is the main issue at hand my understanding is you can only use 1 AGP card, so for 4 monitors I'll need either: a quad AGP ( real expensive) 2 dual PCI's or 1 dual PCI and 1 AGP dual or, 4 single PCI's I'd think I would want a min of 16 meg on the card, more likely 32 or 64 my gut says 2 duals is the way to go I'm surfing Matrox, Radion, Appian, but am as confused as ever can you point me anywhere for more help?