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To: Eric Howard who wrote (13061)	6/1/1999 1:43:00 PM
From: Eric Howard	Respond to of 16960

I needed a PC at work and I also wanted to be able to play EQ at lunch so I went and shopped around on the web for one. I looked at Micron, Dell and Gateway. I think it has already been mentioned here but Dell now has the Voodoo3 3000 as an option but only on the 550mhz pentium3. Gateway also offers the Voodoo3 3000 as an option but Micron only has the TnT and TnT2. Micron was the only company that had the TnT2 Ultra but they would only let you buy it, if you also purchased a monitor 19" or bigger. I wanted the cheapest PC I could find that I could get a good graphics card on. The problem I saw is that all the Celeron models were using integrated graphics cards on the motherboard. Hopefully the new Voodoo3 2000 motherboard wins will show up at some of these OEMs In the end I bought a Dell P3 500 with the Voodoo3 for work. To get this you have to initially select a P3 550, and then downgrade the processor in the options menu which seems silly as you can not get the Voodoo3 from the p3 500 menu. I sent Dell mail so hopefully they will fix this. Eric