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

To: Spots who wrote (293)	2/27/1998 1:02:00 AM
From: Michelino	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Thanks Spots, I have all the goodies that a MSDN Universal Subscription provides. And the latest version of MS Proxy server is one of these, even if irrelevant. But my expertise is in scientific software development, not networking. Although I'm learning, my need for networks is mainly to verify that my apps perform across them. Actually I did know that NT supplies software routing, but hadn't figured it applies to me. The attraction of Winproxy is that it sounds like a breeze to setup for a few machines. Guess I need to play with NT a little more instead. I do like it when NT saves me from a re-boot when an app I've written trashes memory, but 95 still seems slicker, even if seriously unstable. But unless you use FAT (16!) for the boot NT partition, 95 remains much easier to recover from a total disaster. At least to me. Forgive me if this has already been covered in this thread. But it keeps looking like my next dream machine will be a dual processor. I want to fly close to state-of the art on this one. What I am wondering is this...I've always thought that it is cheaper in the long run to go with a prepackaged box when you want the latest configuration. (At least when I've priced the components it seems so.) Would this still be true for a dual processor, (Pentium II 333 Mhz) or is the consensus here that home built is a better buy? I'm no hardware guru, by any means, but I have built two machines from the ground up as charitable acts (with some help from left-over parts) so I will go that route if really helps the bottom line. Michael