New Uber Box

[Bitman]

Too bad I got here so late, you bought the stuff, so I'm now moot. But I'll yap anyway.

- Athlon 1900 MP just released, good catch. I think the XP chip works in a dual board, if you wanna save some more bucks.

- Get a small 15k SCSI, and drop the IDE drive. For most work, low ms's is better than high MB's. And since you're keeping the old machine, 18 or 36 GB will do nicely til you can get a 120 or 160 GB drive cheap. Or if you like hacking, you might try an IDE RAID setup with mirroring, and see if that cuts the ms's.

- DVD - I love slot-load drives. I have the old Pioneer 6x SCSI, and it works great. Too bad they're not black.

- Speakers - I don't understand the obsession with so-called "computer speakers." I got one of those shelf-system stereos for my computer, and the quality is WAY better than any computer speaker. Plus I can listen to radio and tape, even when the computer's off or rebooting.

-B