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

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1186)	6/7/1998 6:50:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14778

To all...need some time to evaluate options, thanks for your contributions. Win 98 vs Win NT -- Is there something really wrong with Win '98? One thing I don't like about multimonitors in NT is that when you maximize a screen, it maximizes to cover all the monitors instead of just on one monitor. The software just wasn't written specifically for multimonitors. Hopefully Win NT 5 will solve this. PII 300 vs PII 233 --the "sweet spot" is tantalizing, but am learning that the 233 might be more than enough for my purposes. I don't know if AMD compatible mobos yet have 5 pci slots. So far I'm still leaning towards Intel, but will keep AMD as an option. P2B-L vs P??97 - I need to get more info from InternetJet as to their ethernet card/connection. Matrox offers the DigiSuite Card for NT - Runs two monitors via 1 PCI card mentioned earlier: matrox.com I will contact them tomorrow and see if one can run two of these cards together for a total of 4 monitors. Price will also be a consideration. I don't really know what "2 simultaneous video displays per screen" really means. Is this card just for video? Is it overkill for my puposes or is it up my alley? Dave, once again, the programs I will be running simultaneously include two web browsers, several Kill Keys, several real time charts, a JAVA based execution software, and several different mIRC chat channels. Would this be too much for '98 to handle? S.W.