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

To: Street Walker who wrote (2208)	8/30/1998 8:15:00 PM
From: Len	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

By the way, I resisted the temptation to say, "It's about f--king TIME!!!" As for building your own, don't be so hard on yourself. It's not about being a man or not. There are other factors. Do you have the time to learn the technical know how to do it? Do you think you can sufficiently troubleshoot any problems you may encounter? Do you have a backup source you can call on should you get stuck at some point? (Don't say 'the guys at SI') Those are all things to consider. It's certainly not anything to sell yourself short about, should you not be in the position right now to build your own. Ah, f--k that!!! You appear to be ready....so go for it, SW. You have come so far!!<ggg> Len

To: Street Walker who wrote (2208)	8/30/1998 9:06:00 PM
From: Alf	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Street Walker I checked out the board that you recommended ABIT BH6 and found one place that advertises in Computer Shopper that has that with a P11 - 266 for $389 or the 300 for $449 I also found the ASUS P2L97 for almost the same as above. Both boards have 5 PCI slots As far as overclocking a chip - just to complicated for me and from what I have heard a 266 or 300 should work fine for what I need. Sep. 12 there will be a computer show here and they do have some great deals if you know what it is your looking for and I will be there checking things out to see if I would be better off building this myself ( mostly watching - got a friend who doe's it) or just bringing a list of the parts I want to a local shop and letting them do it. They are only about 10 min. from me and have a 5 year warranty on labor and 3 on parts. What exactly is the PCI slot for ? besides a video card why would I might need a extra slot ? Thanks Tim Congrats on the set up !