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

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (3774)	11/28/1998 11:02:00 PM
From: d. alexander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Zeuspaul; thank you for the thoughtful & detailed response; also for compiling the thread index which brought me here in the first place. Let me say that I was searching for multimonitor card info., & am not at all sufficiently tech-savvy to be thinking of building a dream machine. However I seem to be learning a few things! The TC computer site has a 450MHz processor with the ABIT BH6 motherboard mentioned in Howard's post #3772 for $2106. Off the shelf Dell 450MHz package has a 19" monitor included for about the same, but less slots (apparently). I don't mind cream under the desk. Began with a beautiful Aptiva when they were selling out in May 97. It's black from stem to stern. At first used my very old monitor, but then CompUSA put the black 15" G52 monitors on sale for $200 because no one wanted black. I got one, then another last June when I upgraded to Win 98 & was able to have 2 monitors. All I know about card prices, I learned from posts in your index, or following links from them. I stopped with Appian, Color Graphics & STB (found the Matrox site confusing because they emphasize video editing), at which point it seemed that if I had to pay a minimum of $700 for a 4 port card, I should start checking out new PCs with more slots. Then use the 2 inexpensive ATI cards that I put in the only 2 PCI slots in my Aptiva + whatever card comes on the new PC for a total of 3 monitors (ie NO expensive multimonitor card in a PC whose slots are already completely insufficient). At the same time having enough slots to put back my 3Com networking card which had to be removed from the Aptiva to make way for the 2nd monitor, and network the new processor with the Aptiva tower. That's about where I am now. Oh, the only thing I can pass along about prices is that the Appian cards appear to be considerably cheaper from the Technology Resource Center than from Elite Trader, but you probably know this. Again many thanks to all for the info. D.A.