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To: Galirayo who wrote (8272)	6/1/2005 6:51:58 PM
From: PuddleGlum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23958

Our Power Company has Lines that eat computers! We get power surges/interruptions that knock out my PC, but my Macs just keep humming as if nothing happened. Get a PC if you want to save money. Get a Mac if you want to save time. In my software dev team at work we have 5 engineers who write apps for Windows. The only one of us who doesn't use a Mac at home doesn't have a computer at home.

To: Galirayo who wrote (8272)	6/2/2005 4:02:26 AM
From: jmhollen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23958

O/T: Hi Ray, ..My kid is a Pro-GEEK so I have a good resource. I strongly recommend the Antec Proformance Seriee-II case. They are high quality and well designed, easy to ventilate, have the removable auxilliary drives compartment, it's full sized tower, and they look slick. Your 80mm case fans will snap-in to the plastic modules Antec provides You can get an optional windowed side door if you want to show off your "..stuff..". Mine came with a 350watt power supply by some high-end outfit whose name escapes me, but the ps-fan is extremely quiet. Lots of hardware and connectors for what ever you end up doing. Abit is the top of the MB heap, per Sean, and the chipsets are designed to make max use of Intel P4 Hyper-Threading capability. The math co-processor chip fan on the Abit board is real quiet to start with, so you won't have to mess with that. I have a Scythe NCU-2000 heat sink CPU cooler (..no fans..) for the P4, but I haven't intalled it yet. The main core heat sink is a circuit/loop filled with freon which boils and re-condenses to move the heat to the fin assembly - totally cool (and elminates the noisy P4 fan). That means you can get a 5" bay 4 fan speed controller and temp monitor to run 4 of the fans previous mentioned (2 in, 2 out). Then get a 3.5" bay controller for the aux. bay fan and a light kit. Or, you could get the fancy-schmancy 8-channel slot-mount thingy with Windows screen control software; see below. Kingston occasionaly has deals on pairs of DDRAM sticks, I have 2 Gigs of DDRAM (1 per stick) and could go up to 4 Gigs. The Abit MBoard is 800MHz FSB, but the DDRAM works at 400Mhz; see below. Well, that ought to be enough to have you slobbering on your JCWhitney & Co. T-shirt for an hour or so. Good luck. John :-) Antec - antec.com Scythe P4 cooler - xoxide.com Abit - dealtime.com Kingston - (2Gig kit) ec.kingston.com Fans - coolermaster.com Fan Controller - xoxide.com .