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

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1478)	6/23/1998 12:51:00 AM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

MultiMonitor Computer for Stock Traders - Almost final decision. I emailed the following to ESC Tech. Waiting for a response. A few tock traders have evaluated many hardware configurations over the last 6 months for a multimonitor capable computer. We are now looking for a reputable company to order and assemble these specific parts. Although we have chosen quality parts, we want an excellent warranty. If we were to order the parts ourselves, we know what we can purchase them for. So being price conscious, what can you build the following computer for noting that you need to make a small profit? pricewatch.com on internet Case: In-Win Full Tower 300W --------------------------- $90 Motherboard: Asus P2B-L 10/100 ATX AGP MB, 440BX ---- ~$249 tomshardware.com CPU: Intel PII 300-----3 warranty---------------------- $257 Heatsink Fan: GLOBAL WIN PII FHK20 --------------------- $22 tweakit.com the "coolest" for PII 300 and above sdsmark.com - purchase place 128 RAM: Corsair 100 compliant ECC SDRAM grade A ------- $329 Hard Drive: IBM Deskstar 8 (8.4gig) --------------------- $254 anandtech.com storagereview.com click on features and database to read about Deskstar 5 or 8 IBM won hands down! Graphics Cards: Matrox Mystique 220 (4 SGRAM 220 Ramdac) 3x$50=$150 Matrox Productiva G100 AGP (8 SDRAM 230 RamDac) ---------- $~70 Will need Win '98 Drivers for multimonitor capability - will be available on June 25. matrox.com Sound Card: We use very little sound. No gaming is involved. Is there a way for the computer to beep for email without a sound card? If we need a sound card, then just a cheap one to get by. (The best in the industry is Guillemont products - offload sound processing to their own very powerful DSP. These are excellent cards thatt also decrease demands on the CPU.) guillemot.com Game Theater 64 Sound: $99 *Home Studio Pro 64 Sound $189 CD Rom: no preference. Floppy Drive: no preference No keyboard or mouse Operating System: Windows 98. Released June 25. Will operate up to 9 monitors - given you have that many PCI slots and the card's drivers support Win 98. Monitors:** ADI 17" Multiscan 5G -------------------4 x $340 (3.5 warranty on CRT, 26 dp) and nicely priced! - this is Micron's monitor. adiusa.com For the items you can provide in the system above, please provide a quote. ---------- S.W.