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

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (1597)	6/27/1998 2:36:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 14778

Zeuspaul mentioned his ergonomic setup--probably the most important thing. I rearranged my setup for awhile after I got a new monitor and fx-marble, but before I got a new desk, my elbow has been on and off numb for the past two months. Surprisingly easy to pinch or damage a nerve using these things...that said, to answer the original question, I have not been overly impressed with the marble, and I sort of miss my old boring Kensington. I think once you suffer a couple weeks of learning the feel of a trackball, they are pretty good, the fx comes with extra buttons, one which can be set to trigger scrolling down. On the other hand, if my elbow stays numb now that I've re-arranged things again, I'll probably change my mind, hehe. *** off topic, finally got my new machine, after waiting for prices to come down to my point. Not the latest thing with the BX chipset, but I only wanted to spend about a grand. With tax I paid $1100, here is what the clone shop sells the components for (note that alot of the little stuff I threw all together, prices are good +/- $20), this is without monitor, altogether I spent $1500. Intel PII-266................$200 64Megs sdram................ $100 Samsung 6.4G.................$200 Mitsumi 32x Floppy Case--rather nice, large tower Keyboard yamaha game/sound/cheap speakers mouse........................$200 Eon Picasso 8meg i740 2d/3d..$100 Abit LX6 mainboard...........$100 W95 oem 2.5..................$100 Tax..........................$100 I would give you the benchmarks, 3d Winbench for instance, but they make you post tons of information about your PC to be legal--I will say that it tests out quite well and makes the comparable Dell's and Gateway machines look about $600 over-priced to me. Oh, I should say that the abit board makes it really easy to take the 266 up to 333, nice, but I wont do it til after my warranty expires--plus a year from now I wont be risking a $200 cpu, they'll probably be half that by then.