<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV>Okay...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>There's a place I've used a couple of times on Evans and Monaco, called Comp-U-Me. They have pretty good prices, and the owner is very knowledgeable about hardware, compatibility issues etc... Unfortunately, I don't have a telephone number.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Personally, I like AMD. Remember, if you go with one of the new XP chips, you need to do a new O/S install for Windoze (or a kernel rebuild for Linux) because of the SSE instruction set. Look for DDR memory and a 266 FSB. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sorry about the line wrap. I'm being forced to use MSN e-mail, since I got "migrated" from Qwest to MSN. Yeech.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 12, 2002 8:51 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> JOEL COHEN</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Cc:</B> clue-tech@clue.denver.co.us</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CLUE-Tech] Hardware Questions</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, JOEL COHEN wrote:<BR><BR>> Are you sure you want to build a new machine? It might not cost you much more to buy a new machine, and you'll save yourself a good deal of time. Once you figure in a new motherboard (yes, you will need to buy a new one), CPU, memory (yes, you will have to replace what you've got), and maybe a new video card, you'll end up spending just as much as a new system.<BR><BR>Saving time isn't all it's cracked up to be. Buying a pre-built<BR>system saves a little money, but it usually means getting<BR>inferior parts. (Not to mention paying the Microsoft Tax if you<BR>buy a Name Brand...)<BR><BR>Take care,<BR><BR>Zonker<BR><BR>P.S. -- You might want to set your line-wrap to 72<BR>characters...<BR><BR>--<BR>Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier -=- jbrockmeier@earthlink.net<BR>http://www.DissociatedPress.net/<BR>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<BR>Ishmael said, "It is your culture's deep-seated perception that<BR>wisdom is not to be found among you. This is what your daydream<BR>reveals. You know how to build marvelous electronic gadgets, you<BR>know how to send ships into space, you know how to peer into<BR>the depths of atoms. But the simplest and most needful knowledge of<BR>all, the knowledge of how to live, simply doesn't exist among you."<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>CLUE-Tech mailing list<BR>CLUE-Tech@clue.denver.co.us<BR>http://clue.denver.co.us/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>