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

To: Street Walker who wrote (4120)	12/11/1998 12:47:00 AM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

$550 ---- $700 COMPUTERS 3yrs parts/labor --- Hardware looks pretty good, with upgrade availabilty. Pent II 350 mhz $700 cyberpowerinc.com Pent Celeron 333a $550 cyberpowerinc.com Any thoughts on these prices and this company? Would this be a better alternative to the computer in my previous post above? Regards, S.W.

To: Street Walker who wrote (4120)	12/29/1998 10:30:00 PM
From: donberube	Respond to of 14778

I am using the eMachines eTower 266 - has a CYRIX 266 and I find it is a better choice than the CELERON... It is ZIF Socket 7 upgradeable... I just installed an additional 128mb 100mhz SDRAM and I am planning on taking advantage of the socket 7 upgrade path in a few weeks by replacing the CYRIX with a new AMD K6 400Mhz... It should work at least twice as fast as it does now - not that it is presently slow by any means... I took out the internal 56k PCI modem and replaced that with an external ZOOM v.90 modem. Fast. I installed an IOMEGA BUZ card in the slot freed up by the modem offload - now I have VIDEO in AND out! Full screen resolution too! I am overall very pleased with my eT266, 2Gig HD, 160mb RAM, v90 modem... I am running the video at 1024 resolution - no problem... The manual says that the video card can do 8mb (borrowed from system RAM I believe...) My next goal is to figure out how to tell the video card to use 8mb instead of just 4mb... ANY INPUT on this??? Email me at "donberube@earthlink.net".