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Posted by: Jim Holloman (216.78.50.42) on October 23, 2003 at 23:42:31

In Reply to: Need Advice posted by Paul L. on October 21, 2003 at 21:56:43:

For the computer, I would suggest a Pentium IV, 2.6 Gb CPU with
an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe (and don't overlook the "Deluxe" part)
Motherboard. It has a 800 Mhz Front Side Bus (FSB), Dual Rate
DDR 400 Memory, 8x AGP, Firewire (1394) port and several USB 2.0
Ports.

A system with a standard AGP Video card, 500 Mb of Dual Rate
Memory (requires two 256 Mb memory sticks), two 120 Gb ATA100
7200 RPM disk drives and a DVD Drive should cost you around
$1,200.00 without monitor or printer, but with WinXP. Add your
choice of tape drive, CD-RW (or DVD-RW), and AGP Video Card for
the total cost. For a Video Card consider the Matrox P650 or
Matrox P750 (about $325.00) dual-head card with both analog (RGB)
and Digital (DVI) output plus video monitor for a third output.

Get the factory packaged CPU and Fan combo. As far as I know,
this is the only way to get a three year warranty on the CPU and
it usually cost the same, or about the same, as separate CPU and
Fan.

I would certainly go with two disk drives; put the O/S on the
first and your images on the second. Be sure to partition the
drives where the first partition contains only the O/S. If you
happen to have a copy of WinMe, Win98 or Win95 around, then
having a dual-boot system can help you recover if WinXP were to
get damaged. However, it also requires that the WinXP partition
be FAT32 rather than NTFS. For dual-boot, I would put a light
weight install of Win98 (for example) on Drive C, WinXP on Drive
D, applications and programs on Drive E, generic data such as
EMail folders on Drive F and images on Drive G thru Drive
whatever (at least Drive L). My favorite disk drives are Western
Digital (WD).

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: For the computer, I would suggest a Pentium IV, 2.6 Gb CPU with 
: an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe (and don't overlook the "Deluxe" part) 
: Motherboard.  It has a 800 Mhz Front Side Bus (FSB),  Dual Rate 
: DDR 400 Memory, 8x AGP, Firewire (1394) port and several USB 2.0 
: Ports.  

: A system with a standard AGP Video card, 500 Mb of Dual Rate 
: Memory (requires two 256 Mb memory sticks), two 120 Gb ATA100 
: 7200 RPM disk drives and a DVD Drive should cost you around 
: $1,200.00 without monitor or printer, but with WinXP.  Add your 
: choice of tape drive, CD-RW (or DVD-RW), and AGP Video Card for 
: the total cost.  For a Video Card consider the Matrox P650 or 
: Matrox P750 (about $325.00) dual-head card with both analog (RGB)
: and Digital (DVI) output plus video monitor for a third output.

: Get the factory packaged CPU and Fan combo.  As far as I know, 
: this is the only way to get a three year warranty on the CPU and 
: it usually cost the same, or about the same, as separate CPU and 
: Fan.

: I would certainly go with two disk drives; put the O/S on the 
: first and your images on the second.  Be sure to partition the 
: drives where the first partition contains only the O/S.  If you 
: happen to have a copy of WinMe, Win98 or Win95 around, then 
: having a dual-boot system can help you recover if WinXP were to 
: get damaged.  However, it also requires that the WinXP partition 
: be FAT32 rather than NTFS.  For dual-boot, I would put a light 
: weight install of Win98 (for example) on Drive C, WinXP on Drive 
: D, applications and programs on Drive E, generic data such as 
: EMail folders on Drive F and images on Drive G thru Drive 
: whatever (at least Drive L).  My favorite disk drives are Western
: Digital (WD).


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