Hello I have a poll up If you would like to participate do the following. Anwser the following. what proccessor? Ram? OS? Add on cards? Graphics? How fast does your machine load? Internet speed connection? Monitor? Thankyou all.

Dell XPS R400.. P2,400MHz.. RAM, 384 mb SDRAM from Crucial.. OS, Win98SE.. Addon card, Adaptec SCSI (PCI).. Graphics card, ATI Radeon 7500 64mb (AGP).. Startup load time? What can I say? it's Win98SE.. Page/site/application load time, snap quick (since I enabled DMA).. ISP, Direcway 2-way satellite (broadband).. Monitor, Dell 19" P990 CRT (Trinitron). Seems like drives should be in here.. Primary master - 40g Western Dig, primary slave - 12g Maxtor, Secondary master - Sony CD-RW burner, Secondary slave - Toshiba DVD, CD-ROM player. Ray

assembled. P3 550 Mhz 64MB PC 100 RAM Win 98se and Win 2k Onboard 4MB video card (because i810D mobo does NOT have a AGP slot) startup time = 1 min 20 secs (after msconfig tweaking) Samtron 55V conn speed = 5 k (bytes) ps kindo old setup... must say.. :((

home built: -gigabyte board -AMD xp1800 processor -512DDR ram -40 gig HD 7200rpm ATA133 -Win 98se -ASUS G4 TI 4200 128DDR graphics card -older Gateway 17" monitor -NIC ethernet card -1800k cable modem(yes, faster than T1) -sound= onboard, hooked through sony stereo w/ Bose 501 speakers -Boot up time averaged around 20 secs until i installed norton firewall/antivirus, now it is around 35 secs. I didnt post to brag about the system but wanted to show that homebuilt is the way to go. You can build it any way you wish and for a lot less than buying systems outright. The above computer cost me under $500 to build (minus the monitor and stereo system which i already had).

HOMEBUILT [ My Baby ]:-) Case : ThermalTake Xaser II Fan : ThermalTake P4 Dragon A1258 Light: 1x 12" Red Cathode Mobo : MSI 845PE Max 2 - 533Mhz Proc : Intel P4 2.53 Ghz Mem : 512mo DDR OS : Windows XP Pro Grafx: ASUS GeForce 4 TI4600, 128mo DDR Monit: Sony Trinitron 17" Sound: SoundBlaster Live Platinum 5.1 with Cambridge sound system AV : Norton Internet Security + AV

Sorry but whats the point of this thread??

Home-built here Processor - P4 - 2.0ghz 512K Memory - 512MB PC133 Primary Master - Maxtor 10GB Primary Slave - Maxtor 40GB Sec Master - Yamaha 8424E Burner Sec Slave - 16X DVD rom Graphics - TNT2 NVidia 32MB AGP TV out OS - XP Pro Internet - DSL Monitor - Acer 17" Start up time??? Seconds ... she flies!