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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: yard_man who wrote (13542)	1/27/1998 1:20:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 94695

OFF TOPIC (if there is one here) Go clone, make sure that you get a nice tower case that has plenty of room so you can do a few things yourself, get a motherboard that supports PII-333, and then put the cheapest processor you can live with on it (that the MB supports) and wait for the new 333's to depreciate a couple years(at least that is my plan when I upgrade my 486). Dont discount the chance for 100mhz bus machines and the AMD processors, they're bargains as far as cpus--in fact the cheapest reasonably powerful cpu for your new board would probably be a K6.

To: yard_man who wrote (13542)	1/27/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Barry; I got it from Office Max of all places, it was I'm sure a close out of that model. I did pop in some extra memory for another $150, but I did that on my own. Opening the case voids the Warrenty, ( I don't care about it any way )..I crank em up if they run OK I take the cover off and check out inside same day. If I don't like it the seal don't mean a ting I just pack in back in the box and take it back to the store and let them hassel with the company. So after a week or so I don't got a warrenty, ( except for the monitor ) I feel I don't need it past that point, as there is not much in it I can't fix or replace cheap enough that I would ship it off any way. ---------------- What I do may not be for most people, like getting a close out I know I'm going to want to bump it up some, for me that's no problem. Except if you get something like CPQ , or one of them that's hard to upgrade, which I avoid. Stick with what they call an open system that will take clone parts, propritery systems suck. Jim