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

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (327)	3/3/1998 9:05:00 AM
From: pae	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

TS-Horse... PCI/ISA limits: ooops! That's what I get for continuing to work into the evening - I was thinking 5 PCI and 4 ISA. All the motherboard descriptions I have read lately are starting blur. Perhaps a spreadsheet with the different options in a template will clear my PCI-slot-keeping... Re-considering 2 21" monitors rather than 4 17", that will give me a couple of PCI slots back. The 21"ers would probably be used up before the LCD display market matures to commodity pricing. No modem in this machine ... other boxes in my lan will be the Internet interface(s). TS with lots of open workspaces & windows can drive any machine to the edge of instability (and beyond). Not grinding an ax against Omega, just the way it is. Keeping MSIE off the TS box seems prudent. Not sure spending $400 for MB/CPU combo and $750 for memory is appropriate balance. Probably should route more $$ toward a single PII MB/CPU and less $$ toward memory. When is W98 scheduled to go GA? The only reason I was thinking NT was to drive dual cpus. W98 would be sufficient for the multi-monitors. Can W98 handle an AGP card plus 1 or more PCI graphic adapters? They don't all have to be PCI? Need to check which bios supports scsi boot. Wire nuts: I've wired a couple of houses (they haven't burned down yet). I love it! Compared to all this computer bits and bytes smoke and mirrors, 3-way and 4-way circuits are childs play --- but so many people get that glassy look if the details come up! :-) Cheers.