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

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2080)	8/22/1998 1:42:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

My choices: I recently bought two computers: 1. Cyrix 180 mhz for $270 + $39 3yr warranty/parts/labor It has four PCI slots available. 2. PII 400 $1299 + $159 3yr warranty I'm definately keeping the elcheapo and will try out the multimonitors on this. I am going to order the InternetJet ISP next week (up to 10 MBps download). Here is my question, in running the internet with several monitors and browsers going at the same time and charts, would I notice a difference between the 180 and 400 mhz chips - if both had the same amount of RAM? Is the PII 400 a good enough deal to keep, or could I do better? S.W.

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2080)	8/22/1998 7:34:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>>I believe there is a reasonable expectation the WD drive will fail. For this reason the extended warranty makes sense to me. ZP (and Street Walker too), are you aware that WD has a three-year warrantee on their drives? They do. I (and virtually everyone else) who has had WD 1.6 gig drives had them fail. I've had three of them fail, BUT WD cross-shipped me a new drive in each case, no hassle, very few questions. Second or third day delivery, and I was back in business. Yes, I had to pay return shipping. Four bucks apiece, I think, or maybe six, from the east coast to the west coast. Otherwise, absolutely no hassle. I did have to provide a credit card for cross shipment in case I didn't return the orginal, but no charge on it unless you don't ship the failed one back within thirty days. Of course, everyone hates a failure, but we're talking about if it happens here. BTW, all other major drive manufacturers have similar warrantees and policies. I just happen to have dealt with WD, so I can vouch for their top-notch service when a problem occurs. I also have several WD drives that have been running more or less continuously since 1992 and are still clunking along (210mb and 325 mb). As I understand it, WD had a problem with their 1.6g 3-platter thin-film head drives, which they claim has been fixed. I have not heard of similar problems with other series. I have a couple of 2.1g WD drives which have been operating now for several years each also, though not since 1992 <ggg>. Spots