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

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (675)	5/18/1998 10:56:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>what is the best value bang for the buck << I have a feeling I could do a little better value vs price than just going out and buying a 300 mhz Dell. I agree that DELL's prices can be beat. They have a good reputation. They use Intel mainboards and CPU's. You will be constrained by specific configurations. Upgrading DELL computers is easier than it used to be. To see your upgrade potential look at Intel mainboards. They generally have fewer PCI slots and memory slots than some of the other manufacturer's boards. I recently had a simple configuration question for DELL that I could not determine from their web site. I called them and spent a lot of time on the phone being transferred from one representative to another. "oh, you do not work for state government, sorry can't answer your question but I will transfer you to someone who can." It went on for fifteen or twenty minutes. What type of upgrade potential are you concerned with? would Sag be as good as any way to go? I have no personal experience. They have been mentioned positively on the thread a couple of times. You probably need to compare components to get a feel for the price comparison. It is rather easy to add up the individual components to find out what kind of deal you are getting. RAM could make a big difference in the comparison. Most sites merely indicate 64 MB RAM or 128 MB RAM without indicating what type. There is generic RAM and grade A name brand RAM. Find out what is quoted in the configuration when you make a comparison. *another suggestion altogether* You might want to checkout KC Computers 192.41.20.224 They have a lot of very satisfied customers. Check out the reviews at the sysopt site. sysopt.com ( page takes about thirty seconds to load) It looks like the firm will build just about anything. KC will help with design considerations. He prefers communicating via email! and claims he responds quickly. Zeuspaul

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (675)	5/18/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: ojai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Clarence- I moved from a Mac to a windows machine several months ago. It was not an easy transition. I ended up going with a Micron. I'm happy with the hardware, have changed a couple of things, no problems upgrading. You don't need a 300mhz machine to trade with, I've heard of many people using 200mhz Pentiums to run Realtick. Mine is a 266 Pent II, more than adequate. It was important to me to have tech support, so I called them and asked questions before my purchase, to see how well I was treated, and how quickly they answered the phone. They passed the test. Win95 was not too stable, so I recently switched to NT, and all is (relatively) well. If you are comfortable with building your own and configuring the software, go for it. I'm pretty computer savvy, had Macs from 1984, but I was in shock for quite a while when I switched to a PC. They are not the most intuitive when it comes to the interface, even if it is a pretty good rip-off of the Mac desktop. Make your transition as easy as possible, it will still be a bit of a rough ride, if it mirrors at all my experience. -ojai