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

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (3148)	10/21/1998 10:56:00 AM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Feedback on Clarence's proposal: Looks good. A few thoughts: -If you're running NT, you may want to consider Maxtor rather than IBM. See storagereview.com. Also, the deskstar 5 and 8 are IBM's previous generation; and even their faster, later 14GPs trail the cheaper Maxtor 2880s and later. -I wouldn't worry about hurrying to get the SL2W8. I can't imagine you will notice ANY performance difference between it and the significantly cheaper celeron 300a, which is likely to see a price drop in the next week or 2. -Will you want to enter into gameland or multimedia at all, or is this strictly a business PC? It would affect video and sound recommendations. Matrox and Creative's PCI line are excellent choices regardless--I have both running with no problems in NT. -With tape, CD, and 2 HDDs, and doubtless more expansion later, I'd go with a FT if you can spare the space. Hope this helps.

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (3148)	10/21/1998 11:13:00 AM
From: pae	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

SL2W8: that link stilled showed inventory @midnight last nite EST. I didn't see anything else priced well at that site, after doing a fair amount of checking. (The bundles at Muchkin I thought were quite good!) If you're set on the Sl2W8, you might want to cherry pick that while the rest of your config specs up. I considered that PII based on those links, but elected to follow Dan's lead on the Celeron 300a OC project. Though even a slight possibility of 600mhz certainly has attraction! <g> Interested to read the response on ECC. Also interested in the sources you end up bundling which components from. I'm currently looking at Mushkin for M-brd, CPU, Memory; Cliffords for HD, software, vid cards, modem, NIC; AberdeenInc for ergo Keyboard; and Axion for the InWinQ500 case. More sources than I wanted, but ... Paul