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

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (1257)	6/10/1998 6:26:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Totally Awesome - No Warranty on AMD systems. They will build a system with AMD chips but will not warranty them because of the problems of it not running various software. They gave no details. I told them the reason I was interested was because of the price differences. I quoted them $188 for the AMD 300. Dell, the owner, said they sell the PII 300 for $163. If they assemble the computer, I'll go with the PII because of the better price and warranty. As far as STB multimonitor cards, they are nice but pricey, along with Appian cards. To run 4 monitors, their cards are around $1200. The current cheapest multimonitor card is Colorgraphics. Evolution 2 - $495 - two monitors Evolution 4 - $695 - four monitors Hopefully Matrox will price their cards significantly lower when they release theirs this fall. The next cheapest and current options (June 25 countdown): 1. Windows 98 + four $40 cards (or one excellent and three low end.) 2. Windows NT + four Matrox Millenium cards I'm still wondering how much, and what kind of Ram would be the bang for the buck to run 2D applications on a 17" monitor. 2,4 or 8 mb of EDO, SDRAM, SGRAM, or WRAM? S.W.