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

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (3)	1/21/1998 2:44:00 AM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Thanks for the Invitation to come to this thread. Zeus and I, among others have been talking about building a "DREAM MACHINE" to run several monitors off of. Its been on another thread, so its great this thread has been created. Lets share ideas so we can all benefit. Here is a copy of a post from two other threads I've been hashing this topic out on..Daytraders -tricks of the trade and MSFT (netscape vs explorer).............. Zeus....I've been spending most of my free time calling vendors about the best computer components that are value oriented. There are lot of new things coming out in the next month such as 100mhz motherboards that will become industry standard replacing the 66 boards. Chip prices are falling like the sky of Chicken Little. Intel is comming out with their 333Mhz which will ensue a drop in price of their other chips. Then AMD will come out with the long awaited 300Mhz which will outperform the Pentium II 300 and at a tremendous savings compared to Intel and one can use it on their existing nonPentium II motherboard. Intel's Socket 1 technology (PII)is being phased out according to Intel's announced last friday. They are going to go back to an upgraded Slot 7 technology. Pentium Pro never caught on. The industry remained with Slot 7. PII kinda caught on. The industry (AMD and Cyrix) remained with Slot 7. Now Intel decides to go back and become Slot 7 again. In the meantime, they made a lot of profit by selling specialized Pentium II Socket 1 motherboards. IMO, its called job security. Keep changing things to hood wink people into buying their products. Intel is great at that. Modems: yea there's the big scoop about ADSL. (AWRE and WSTL had nice moves today because of INTC/CPQ/MSFT news conferance. I'm not buying in. No one is fooling me... cable modems will become the industry standard, so I'm buying Diamond's Shot Gun (3COM is also coming out with similar technology, but hasn't been announced yet) to tie me over until Cable is available in my area. Probably in about 2 years. RAM: I hear alot about this - You need alot of it! Bottom of the line is EDO Ram. Then SDRAM which is becoming the standard in computer packages. Then there is RDRAM which is super fast and the newly anounced ESRAM which is super dupper fast! I haven't analyzed prices, though. pricewatch.com Discussion on RAM at SI thread: RAMTRONIAN's Cache Inn [RMTR] (Some of these guru's could help us out quite a bit to get this thread humming)..extend an invitation, there as well as to Charles and et al from the MSFT thread. :-) As far as running multimonitors, its the way to go. Either Appian or ColorGraphics cards...sill researching and maintaining communication with the techies at each company. Appian IMO is more advanced. They are used in Dell's corporate line. Window NT is a definite must. Forget about Windows 98. NT is faster, runs multiple programs better, etc. This has been told to me so many times by techies that I no longer question it. Monitors: zdnet.com Take a look at Oct 7th edition for Editors Choice on Monitors. As for 21' monitors, View Sonic earned the Award last Summer. Thanks for alerting me about the "Build Your Own PC" thread. I'll copy this and move the discussion there so that this thread can get back to Ken's purpose. Thanks everyone. I think everyone has been enlighted by the hashing out of what to do to have the right hardware for Daytrading effectively at a valued price, hence, multimonitors off one PC. Street Walker

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (3)	1/21/1998 2:52:00 AM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Super Graphics........PC Magazine Editor's Choice..........READ ME Everyone should bookmark this: zdnet.com Graphics cards are in the DECEMBER 2 edition. For 2D graphics, I like Number Nine Revolution. S.W.

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (3)	1/21/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: okee-boy	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14778

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (3)	1/22/1998 11:50:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

SuperG.... first revision......includes pricing Still lots of work to do but I needed a handle on the price Preliminary Configuration Motherboard .. Tyan S1696DLUA dual PII with onboard Adaptec SCSI and Yamaha sound. 4 168 pin DIMM slots (512MB SDRAM) 5 PCI and 3 ISA (one shared)..............................$459 CPU Intel PII 33...............................................$299 Harddrive X.X GB..............................................$300 Monitor Viewsonic P815 1840x1400............. Nine Revolution 3D AGP video card...................$300 Ethernet card................................ US Robotics Sportster 56 X2 modem OEM..........$139 64 MB DIMM SDRAM......................................$169 SuperMicro ATX tower 300 watt power supply 750-A ATX case.................................................$189 _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ tentative without monitor or network card..............$1855