EVALUATION

[DUSTYRUN]

I am new to this site. I would like to have my computer evaulated. I have:
P-233mmx
mid tower case
160 meg. ram
10 gig hd
32x cd
2--3-1/2 drives
awe 64 gold w/16 meg
matrox millium II w/8 meg.
56x modem
also::
scanmaker x6el
hp 895Cse
viewsonic g771 {17"}
Bell power controller station
juster active 95n speakers
logiteck 3 button mouse
thrustmaster top gun platinum joy stick
windows keyboard with 12 extra programable keys.

in the next month i will be upgrading to a PII-400 with-rage fury 32 meg video,128 meg. ram. but i will be keeping the rest.

Give me a rating of my system. I will appreciate all comments.

[Mrcompjr1]

Why two 3.5's? you can do the same things with one.....besides you can use the open bay to add something else to your monster....

[Nathan]

Sounds like a great system to me, outside of 2 floppies? What's the reason for 2 of them?

[BBA]

Most of the stuff you say sounds like good parts. 1 flopy 2 floppy 3 floppy 4....

Well, the next sys sounds good for using the old stuff in, but I woud go with a TNT2 instead of the ATI ( Ive used the 32M ATI, it aint so great, my old TNT is better in my opinion).

Is your ram SDRAM?, if so, is it PC-100?
You will need PC-100 for a P2 400 sys.

BBA

[This message has been edited by BBA (edited 05-30-99).]

[CMonster]

Sounds like a good system; good amount of RAM you have in there and a nice size hard drive too. What motherboard is it?

I have a system very much like yours, but with only 128MB of EDO and 6.2GB hard drive, and it does everything quite well for me. Funny thing is that 4 years ago my system was worth about $3000 (not that I paid that much for it, I got most of it for $50) now it would probably only resale for about $350 w/ monitor. So I'm keeping mine too, as part of the home net.

[DUSTYRUN]

I have 2 floppys because I do a lot of coping for my work. To me it is quicker to just go A to B on my desktop.

BBA--I will take your suggestion and look into a tnt2 for my video. My ram is actually sdram at 66mhz. My new ram will be 100 mhz.

Cmonster--My motherboard is an Aopen AP5T by Acer.
Not to get mushie, But I was starting to think that my system was a so-so. That's bad since I did the building. I do have a good coach when I really need an answer.

thanks