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To: Street Walker who wrote (1753)	7/23/1998 10:20:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>> thoughts on an SCSI drives and the current situation with Win 98/matrox drivers?<< Sorry about the delay getting back to you. I took some time off work to build a stairway. The only time a SCSI harddrive will make a difference is when it is accessed. With a 128 MB of RAM I doubt you will be using your harddrive much. You will use it when you call up a program and when you save it. You will also use it if you are surfing as a browser writes to the harddrive as it caches page views. If the system starts using the harddrive..add more RAM as it is much faster than a harddrive. Current IDE drives are very good performers. They outperform some SCSI drives. SCSI should be used if you want a lot of drives or in the case of multitasking. If I had to guess..SCSI will not make a difference in your setup. There is a nifty program that I ran across the other day. accessone.com It uses RAM in lieu of the harddrive. It should make a big difference in some applications. You can program it to cache a browsers files instead of using the harddrive. It may also have a use in a trading machine. It would depend on how the program accesses the harddrive. I do not know of anything new with Matrox drivers. I have put that project on the back burner. My thoughts....Go for the multimonitor card. You will save the PCI slots..It will work..get one that works in NT or Win 95/98...The way the software operates on the multiple setup should be a major consideration...go for an IDE harddrive...you can add a SCSI card later if the need arises.. I have not checked prices recently but I still think the 333 is a good choice. Two reasons. It runs significantly cooler and there is no risk of a counterfeit chip. There are a lot out there. Why take the chance? Zeuspaul