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

To: Robert Graham who wrote (13336)	6/17/2002 1:39:38 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Robert, Thanks much for the comments, and sorry for the slow reply. What you think you need and what you actually need are usually two separate things in this business. Look at where you need the performance or feature improvement. Then plan accordingly. There will always be something better to come along after your purchase. I don't think I need anything special—I just want something that will last several years, and give me good bang for the buck like I got with my present Celeron 300 system. I decided to go with WinXP Pro for its restore capability I have a bias of unknown origin towards Win2K (might have to do with $Bill's new licensing strategy), but may choose xp if I can wait long enough for it to have its first service release—the ars folks say xp will get all the support from Microsoft. Technology and prices are changing rapidly True—"a dollar spent today is thrown away" <g> Prices will in the future be half of what it costs now. A couple days after you said this Intel slashed prices by up to 40% (even more, I think, on their notebook cpu's). Always place a rock stable system at a premium in your decision. It is not worth purchasing motherboards that will offer you that edge in performance, just to spend much of your time getting it to run correctly with your existing hardware, and still have it crash on you from time to time. Your PC is your "bread and butter". Treat this purchase decision with care. Amen. This was the guiding principal of the folks on this board whose advice I took getting my present system, and it bears repeating. With the lower Intel prices I may go for the P4—the mainstream chipset for which (I forget the name) is supposed to be another BX (i.e., super stable). I sure would like to satisfy my desire for dual cpu's, though... Isn't Intel supposed to be putting multi-thread capability into their cpu's soon? Fully test the final configuration out with benchmarking and burn-in software for stability and performance concerns. Haha—I wouldn't know where to start... Afterwards, make a complete system backup. I LOVE my DriveImage software. PS, I want to learn how to customize Excel but I'm not sure where to start. As I understand it, I need to learn Visual Basic for Applications. Do I need to learn Basic first?