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Re: TI-H: BRIAN + GRANT read
ViewSonic 21" Monitor with RGB and BNC inputs
California PC server chassis with dual hot-swap 300 watt power
supplies and 4 case fans
Keytronics Lifetime Keyboard
Logitech 4 button Mouseman +
Cambridge Soundworks - Microworks 3 piece home theatre speaker
system
Microsoft Force Feedback Joystick
Microsoft Gamepad
ASUS P2B Pentium II Motherboard (Intel's new BX chipset)
Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro with 8 megs of 100mhz SGRAM, AGP
DUAL Diamond Monster II 12meg cards, total 24meg 3D texture memory,
voodoo 2 chipset
AWE-64 Gold with Diamond Monster Sound
Adaptec AAA-133 3 channel Caching SCSI RAID controller with 16meg
cache (45 devices)
27 gigabyte RAID level 0 comprised of 3 Seagate Cheetah 9 gigabyte
- 10,000 RPM hard drives
384 megs of 8ns PC100 SDRAM memory
Plextor 32/14 SCSI CDROM
Plextor CDRW Drive
Iomega internal Jazz Drive, 2 gig
Intel Ether Express Pro 10/100+ NIC
US Robotics Courier V.everything internal 56k modem
Windows 95 OSR 2.5 or Windows NT workstation 4.0
CPU Vue temperature monitor with alarm
>Thats where I got my prices... :) I ordered my 2 4GB drives straight
from
>IBM... Along with a 3.4 and 6.3GB IDE drives for my mpeg player... I
>think IDE can do atleast 34.2k per sec which should cover mpeg 1 layer
2 at
>384kb... :)
>
>>Well...i could build it for less than that at distributor prices...but
>>anyway...
>>
>>-- Jon Olson
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
>>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>>Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 9:50 PM
>>Subject: Re: TI-H: BRIAN + GRANT read
>>
>>
>>>
>>>Okay... If I were to invest in a computer, it wouldn't have all this
junk
>>>that average companies try to pull... First of all, 32MB of ram
isn't
>>>enough. 128 is standard for network devolpement/serving/3d
applications
>>>and so on. Second of all, it needs to either have a small raid
solution...
>>>2 4GB drives is standard these days, and 2 9GB drives is what I
should
>>>think about getting... If not raid, its got to be Ultra-SCSI... Did
you
>>>know that your fastest IDE drive can't top about 6MB per sec? :)
>>>
>>>Also, the 20x CD players that you find for $68 aren't of good
quality...
>>>and most IDE drives that are that cheep don't even support audio
ripping...
>>>
>>>2MB PCI video card is old too. With my new computer I'm getting a 3D
>>>accelrated video card with 8MB of ram...
>>>
>>>It should also be comparable to that of a 466MHz alpha in speed...
(233MHz
>>>mac or a 400MHz pent). MMX is just a rip of the pent II with like 4
or 5
>>>new instructions so just because its MMX doesn't mean its good...
>>>
>>>A good processor alone should cost atleast $650. Not the whole
computer.
>>>
>>>It also needs to hav onboard ethernet at either 10 or 100Base.
>>>
>>>I know I've forgotten a few things, but you can get the computer I've
>>>described for $4,790 complete with 20" monitor kbd and mouse... I'm
not
>>>going to tell you where, because this list can't handle mature
thoughts...
>>>
>>>>>I can't afford all that... :(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>How's $474.26?
>>>>
>>>>Pentium - 233 (intel) MMX
>>>>$212.16
>>>>32MB ram
>>>>$45.90
>>>>2.1GB harddrive
>>>>$122.40
>>>>20X CD-ROM with sound card and 85W speakers $68.34
>>>>2MB PCI video
>>>>$25.50
>>>>
>>>>Assuming you have a case, keyboard, mouse and monitor. Not bad,
huh?? Go
>>>>to www.wintergreensys.com/flier.htm to see a list of prices. I buy
at
>>level
>>>>2 (cause I buy so much from them) and if anyone wants something, let
me
>>know
>>>>and I can get it (unless you live in indy, you can get it
yourselft).
>>>
>
>
>
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