Re: Hardware Recommendations

I agree with Peter Williams about a high level system.  I am going all out
since it will be a personal system, too.  This is what I currently have
being built:

Dual Pentium motherboard (using a single processor to start)
PIII 500
1024 MB RAM (max board will take)
Canopus Spectra 2500 AGP 16MB, Riva TNT chipset.
        This is an excellent video card.  It comes with TV out that allows
you to view
        WEB TV content on a TV, not a monitor.  Haven't tried doing that
yet, but
        that's what I expect anyways.
Canopus Pure 3D II LX (w/o TV OUT) 12 MB Hardware Accelerator
3x 'Cheetah' 9.1 GB 10,000 rpm, 80 mb/sec Ultra 2-LVD SCSI Hard Drive's
Onstream Parallel Zip Drive, 50 GB capacity (can use their 30 or 50 GB
disks)
Sound Blaster LIVE!
US Robotics 56K modem
        (don't need it since I've got a dedicated T1, just want it to check
out dial-up,
        besides doesn't cost much)
Sony 5X/24X DVD ROM
Sony 4/2/24X IDE CD Recorder/Rewritable
Panasonic 120 MB/1.44 MB Super Drive
Logitech Internet Keyboard
Logitech Trackman Marble FX Trackball  (sick of mice)
Cambridge Soundworks Speaker System
Hitachi 21" Color Monitor, .22 dp, 1600x1280 resolution
        (most excellent monitor)
Win NT/Win 98 Dual Boot Capable

Fortunately, I have a friend that runs a computer wholesale company, so I
can get some decent prices.  If I had to tone my list down, I would
definitely ditch the PIII 500 for a PII 400 or 450, bring my RAM down to an
earthly 256 MB and maybe ditch one of the Hard Drives.  Now, these are MY
favourite components, you may want to change brand names (Matrox instead of
Canopus, etc).

HTH,
Egon Nielsen
Pacific Web
www.pacificweb.com
(This site is under heavy reno, so we went to an older, more antiquated
edition. :(  Sorry for it's looks)

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Williams <peter.williams(at)hendersons.com.au>
To: Stephen K. Fisk <skfisk(at)iserv.net>; HWG Graphics <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 10:18 PM
Subject: RE: Hardware Recommendations


>Somewhere to start...
>Good PII motherboard (Gigabyte, and Intel can fit here)
>PII 400MHz or whatever you can afford
>128MB RAM
>Matrox Millenium G200 AGP 8MB
>Quantum 12GB UDMA 66 HDD (insert your favourite brand)
>MS Intellimouse
>Keyboard of your choice
>Good 17" or up monitor (Sony, Viewsonic, etc)
>Sony CD ROM drive
>Sound card and speakers for some relaxing/hyping music
>
>Windows NT 4 Workstation
>
>Extras/Mods
>Large removable media drive ie. Zip drive
>Scsi card and scsi HDD in place of IDE
>Flatbed scanner (scsi)
>Olympus or Nikon megapixel digital camera
>
>
>Peter Williams - LAN Support/Webmaster
>peter.williams(at)hendersons.com.au
>http://www.hendersons.com.au/
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
>> Behalf Of Stephen K. Fisk
>> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 1:20 PM
>> To: HWG Graphics
>> Subject: Hardware Recommendations
>>
>>
>> I am planning to build a new computer later this year and would
appreciate
>> feedback on what features would make a PC a "dream machine" for Web
design
>> work.
>>
>> Current tools include Photoshop  5, CorelDraw 8, HomeSite 4,
>> SmartSaver Pro,
>> Graphics Workshop Pro, along with Kai's Power Tools and Eye Candy.
>>
>> I plan to purchase all high-quality components (Intel motherboard
>> and CPU),
>> at least 128, possibly 256MB RAM, etc.  I will likely buy a
>> motherboard that
>> will accept the new Pentium III chip but will probably start out with a
>> Pentium II 450 and then upgrade when the dust settles and both
>> the chip and
>> software are better suited, although if anyone has experience that says I
>> should go straight to a P-III I would be open on the point.  When it
comes
>> to graphics boards and accelerators I am a babe in the woods.  I want a
>> solid system that is state-of-the-art so I would appreciate some advice
in
>> this area.  As to monitors I am inclined to stay with a 17-inch
>> unit but am
>> open on that point too.  I would especially like to hear from those of
you
>> who spend all day on your PC and have strong feelings about what you wish
>> you had but don't <grin>.
>>
>> Thanks in advance - skf
>>
>>
>

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