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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (1146)	6/6/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

FYI, with Asus (and many other P2 boards), one can run the faster front side bus on the BX without using the faster processors. There are other minor reasons to do the BX over the LX (a bit more forgiving of RAM, a bit better performance), but LX is cheaper, and probably (tho not necessarily) more bug-fixed. The PCI/ISA slot ratio is different. With the BX board would the NIC card go in an ISA slot?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (1146)	6/6/1998 11:13:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

General Responses Multimonitor/Operating System: #reply-3280166 I'm waiting to hear back from Dirk to see what he prefers and his ideas on over taxing the PCI resources. A recent posts stated that Win '98 will support up to 9 monitors. I don't know if Win NT is limited to two. Also, the software for '98 is configured for multimonitors. Win NT would require more tweaking. Sorry, I don't know what a DOS application is. Monitors will be 17". Min dp .26; high refresh rate. I use 800x600. Totally Awesome has instock parts for their ready made systems, but if you want them to assemble one with your choice of parts, they will order the parts cheaper than you can get them elsewhere and build you your system. They will not sell individual parts, however. You have to buy the whole computer from them, excluding monitor/mouse/keyboard/speakers/software. Very impressive. They been in business for 7 years at the same location. They don't advertise on the Net cause they have enough business just from word of mouth in Salt Lake. (801)293-0909 Fax (801)293-0791 I won't be reusing any RAM. I'll be passing on my old computer to a nephew. I'll go for the 128 sticks at your suggestion. Software/Hard Drive: I'm currently using a 1.6 gig. There's been a few times I wanted to try out some new software, but didn't have the space. The only software I really use is the operating system, my Kill Key castleonline.com which takes up minimal space, eudoralight email, and mIRC chat,and a stock charting program. I've been running all this on a P 133 for 1 1/2 years. I need more monitors! I don't store much chart data. As a daytrader, I really don't care what the stock did the day or week before. I just use the real time chart. The stocks I trade a lot I store in my mind knowing entry and exit points. I would like to start saving a few one day charts, however. I may try something like ZeusPaul mentioned about having two hard drives in case of disaster. For what I'm doing, will a PII 233 be adequate? Or would a 266 or 300 be preferable? S.W.

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (1146)	6/7/1998 12:05:00 AM
From: Street Walker	Respond to of 14778

PII 233/266/300...talking to 4 graphics processors Dirk Wrote> I would like to add some remarks about the multi mon setup: it makes no difference how many monitors are attached to a computer, the performance is more or less the same. Unfortunately, you always tend to run more programs/tasks/processes on a multi mon setup and this will slow down you computer. When you increase the number of monitors you always increase the number of graphic processors as well: if you add 4 monitors you add 4 graphic processors and the graphic processing power is increased 4 times (thats parallel processing capability)! Of course, the CPU must now talk to 4 graphic processors which may add some overhead.< Would the PII 233 be sufficient for my purposes and running 4 cards? S.W.

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (1146)	6/7/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: Street Walker	Respond to of 14778

4 cards - preferences #reply-4660057 - huge list of compatible cards. Dirk: With WIN98 you are more flexible, especially you can mix pci & agp graphic cards. However, you need driver software from the card vendor which must be Win98 certified What would be anyone's high end favorite? What about bottom of the line favorite? I'm still trying to decide between Win NT and '98. Win '98 sounds more friendly = different cards, resolutions, software configured specifically for multimonitors. S.W.