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

To: Spots who wrote (1118)	6/5/1998 7:24:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>You omitted monitor on purpose, right?<< Yes It seems most systems are quoted without monitor. My $2500 machine was without monitor. ( the 21 in monitor I want is $1000+) You're right the comparison is not exactly right. You would have to add about $300 for an OS, sound card and modem to make it a valid comparison. I can't see any value to the other software, it is mostly limited edition buy me if you want more kind of software. I also do not have a real OS IMO as it only will work on this machine. Microsoft agreements allow me to move software as long as I delete it from a previous machine. I can't do that with the Compaq load. Also, what about the fact that I can't reuse the case, sound card, modem, video as it is all proprietary stuff? Comparing is like apples and oranges. I found it interesting that one could have highend components with a lot of upgrade potential for about a grand. I see value in open architecture. It would be a different kind of low cost machine than is available from Compaq today. The $1000 machines I have seen from the big box makers have very limited upgrade potential. The comparison to my machine was an after thought. Its time for the 120 MB floppy. Zeuspaul ps The $111 PII 233 is what got me started.

To: Spots who wrote (1118)	6/5/1998 7:57:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>> the NT monitor shows my virtual memory usage peaked at 120MB. That's typical for me.<< I found the task manager on my NT navigation machine. I have not found the virtual memory monitor yet but intend on going back and reading some of your and others previous posts on the subject. The machine has dual Pentium Pro 200's. The task manager shows two green bars with percentage of CPU usage. They both move together which does not sound right to me if they represent each of two CPU's They stay right at 50 percent most of the time with occasional spikes and falls. To the right of the bar charts there are two line graphs. I am guessing each one represents a CPU but I do not have a single CPU NT system to compare to. One line graph shows about 80 percent utilization while the other shows about 20 percent. These combined would be 50 percent of total CPU capacity which would match the 50 percent bar chart. The application is multithreaded. Is my interpretation of the charts correct? Zeuspaul