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To: jw who wrote (3778)	11/29/1998 12:41:00 AM
From: genaro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

To all,Great thread. New to Windows and have a couple questions I haven't found answers too yet. Only read about a 1000 posts. Have a local whiz kid putting together a 450 PII on a BH6 board with an UW scsi drive. He is not back from the Comdex yet, and I am trying to put together an off the shelf back up. Found a couple inexpensive 300 mhz systems at Egghead. One is PII 300 and the other is AMD K6 300 system. Both have 4 PCI's and an AGP graphics card running W 98. 1. What is the difference's between the PII and K6? In laymen's term. The K6 comes with a set of speakers and an extra software bundle. Would I be better off picking up my own speakers. Is it just a matter of preferences or would I be giving up L2 cache or something? 2. For multi monitors with the existing AGP card, is it as simple as adding a second PCI, do I have to add 2 PCI for use with two monitors and by pass the AGP ( do both cards need to be the same)? 3. Egghead has some Viewsonic .25 21' monitors coming in this Friday for $599. Is this a good price? Standard price? I live in Hawaii and am always nervous about shipping from the mainland. These are the monitors I have been wishing for, but if it is a standard price, I might go ahead and order locally and pay the OUTRAGOUS local tax. TIA Doug

To: jw who wrote (3778)	11/29/1998 11:44:00 AM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Think a person would be buying a pig-n-poke?. Just thinking out loud. No. But I hope you understand the limitations of this motherboard. The Tyan S1692S Tiger ATX Pentium 11 motherboard uses the Intel LX chip set. This means it is limited to a maximum front side bus speed of 66Mhz. Newer motherboards use the Intel BX chip set and can run with a front side bus speed of 100MHz. Maybe it was a mistake but I couldn't find a COM, serial, port in its port listing. I would never buy a motherboard that didn't have a built in COM port. As far as I know you can not use a Celeron CPU with this motherboard as this capability must be built into the BIOS. At one time the Tyan S1692S Tiger ATX Pentium 11 was a leading edge motherboard. But you can buy an ABIT BH6 motherboard and a Celeron CPU for about the same price as you can purchase a Tyan S1692S Tiger ATX Pentium 11 motherboard and Pentium II CPU and end up with a computer with better performance when you over clock a Celeron 300A to 450MHz. Conclusion if you already own a Pentium II CPU than buying a Tyan S1692S Tiger ATX Pentium 11 motherboard is a safe choice but if you also need to buy a CPU than I suggest you purchase a motherboard that uses Intel's BX chip set.