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Old 10-04-2004, 12:16 PM   #8 (permalink)
Mondak
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Lasereth, Sailor, Dragonlich, Paq, and CHollman82. Good advice. I will stick with the P4 and put AMD out unless I find a way better deal on one with a faster clock. I will hit Firewire for sure and go with the Card reader. I just put one on my machine the other day and it is handy.

Paq, thanks a lot on the SATA advice. I did not know anything about that. Anything special I have to do when I choose a Motherboard then I assume? I like what you said about LCDs, but it sure would be nice space-wise on their desk. There is not a lot of room in the studio where this thing will sit and judging from the POS CRT that in on their desk today, maybe I will go against you, but concentrate on dotpitch. I am a big believer in LCD as long as you don't judge them on size of the screen and truely focus on the display quality. I will look into that deal on the fans. Never knew and you can always use new ones.

I will be sure to get lots of RAM no problem. I will shoot for at least PC3200, but any thoughts on minimum speeds there may be educational. For me.

The last thing for now is educating myself further on LCD monitor offerings. Things like Tom talk a lot about refresh rates. I am looking to make sure pixel pitch is low and color quality is true.

I am still working on budget with them. I will know for sure at the end of the week. I wil revisit this thread with my progress as I imagine this will be done over the next month or so.

Thanks again everyone. Anything else you think of is welcome!
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