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

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (1248)	6/9/1998 9:34:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

AMD vs PII...Totally Awesome PII 300 including monitor..$1549 I'm wondering what took Matrox so long to discover this market? Available in 3Q98. I'm not waiting any longer! I'll buy separate cheap cards for now, and when I need PCI slots in the future, I'll look to get their mulimonitor card, depending upon the price. Colorgraphics Evolution 2 which drives 2 monitors costs $495. I hope Matrox prices theirs around $180 or less. The TEC Socket 7 mobo retails for $109 AMD-K6 300 3DNow - retails -3yr warranty = $188 The ASUS P2B = ~$180 PII 300 = ~$450 retail (I don't know the current drop in pricing) There is a significant cost difference that one must consider. The PII runs 32bit apps better, but for my purpose, I doubt I would visually see a difference. "Visual" is my own personal bench mark :-) What takes up most of my time is my own brain deciding to buy or sell a stock! This is clearly an alternative. Will think about up until Win '98 is released and the reviews done on what Annad say's will be the very best mobo out in a week - California Graphics Photon 100. (P.S. I couldn't find anything at Annad's that suggested AMD 300 3d outperformed the PII 300, except for price.) --------------------- Also, Totally Awesome said they don't deal in AMD. I'll see if don't = won't. I guess they are big Intel dealers. They said they got an "Awesome" deal on PII 300's. They sell them $40 LESS than a PII 233. But you have to buy the whole computer from them. Their already built computer costs $1549 Includes the following: 3 yr warranty parts.........Lifetime Warranty Labor of any kind They will beat any competitor by $100 assembling with same components as competitor. 235w case - Enlight mid -(sometimes this changes). Asus P2B mobo PII 300 Western Dig 6.4g HD Viper 3d graphics card Awe(you know what I mean) 64 Sound card US Robotics 56 modem 64 Grade A SDRAM 17" ADI mutiscan monitor 5p+ (3.5 yr warranty on crt) keyboard/mouse/ really expensive speakers The usual software bundle They will subtract items you don't need like the monitor/keyboard/ mouse/software/modem/speakers. But the bare bones has to be purchased from them. No selling of individual components without a barebones purchase. The parking lot is always full of people loading computers in their cars. (801) 293-0909 S.W.