In rH PC news, I have just stumbled across a Dell PIII-800 NT Machine with a 15" flat panel monitor for 500 clams! New, never used, with a clean HD... just the operating system and a network card. I'm gonna be a networked, dual monitor using fool... I'd like to use my old PC for storage (40GB HD) and CD burning and have the PIII for my graphics and surfing machine...possibly getting a dual video card and running 2 monitors off of one machine.. if anyone has any advice or would like to try to talk me out of buying this system, I'm willing to listen... rH
The PIII 800 is probably an Optiplex- used for small businesses. Probably has 3 dimm slots for up to 784MB SDRAM. Typically Opti's are not your graphics machines. They are mainly used for NT and 2000 in a networked environment. With that being said, $500 is a good deal with the FP monitor. Go for it, man.
ok... here's what I got Dell Optiplex PIII-866 256 Megs of RAM 15" Flat Panel 10GB HD Windows NT my friend got a lot (a group of items, not a whole bunch) of items from an auction and a couple of these were these systems... he kept one for himself and sold me the other! baqui, this machine will run the Corel Graphics Suite and that's all I really need...not graphic intensive stuff like major Adobe Programs and Digital Video... I just do desktop type graphic applications and websurfing...and now, networking! can anyone recommend a basic networking website or a good book on the subject? I need to network this PC with my old PC and my laptop! I have a Linksys DSL router and now just need some Cat5 and some knowledge... rH
no... not an online auction, it was just a local auction he went to, like one of those storage unit auctions... he bid on a lot of items with some tools he wanted and these PC's were in there along with the tools.. pretty lucky... rH
rockHead for networking...start here and if you have any questions, email me and I'll be glad to help out however I can.
