From: Vic Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: [OT] [HELP] building a new PC Date: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 12:59:21 -0400 Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada Lines: 20 Message-ID: <359E5F68.6390@cam.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-522.hip.cam.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk hello there. I need a new computer so I decided that this summer (if you can call it a summer, it's a shitty weather outside :) I'll build myself a new one. I want a PII 300. I decided for a matrox productiva card and an ASUS main board. I want good components, but I _do_ have a budget :) I'm thinking about 1400$ canadian (1000$ US). My problem is, first of all, how do I make sure there won't be any hardware conflicts between the cards on my PC? How do I make sure I have enough slots for all the cards? Cause I want a soundcard too, a modem, a monster3D eventually etc. Another thing is the OS: I won't put winshit 98 on it (sorry Russ :) So the only choice I have is NT (I will also put linux on a different partition). Are there any hardware problems I should consider with NT? Any software problems? Are all the win95 programs (and games) gonig to work with it? BTW: could I still find a sound blaster AWE32? cause I don't want a SB 16 and a AWE 64 seems too much. Any other good (and compatible) sound cards you could reccomend? TIA,