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- Big Elephant Cache 486DX2 model north africa 486, Big Elephant Enterprises
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- Even in an excellent field, one system has to be best, and
- this is it. Big Elephant climbs to the top by offering great
- price/performance and customer service.
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- The Big Elephant turned in excellent benchmark scores. It
- was one of the few systems to do as well on the Windows
- tests as on the BAPCo suite. This hot performance can be
- attributed to several factors, including the Promise
- Technology caching controller (equipped with 1MB of cache)
- and the ATI Graphics Ultra video accelerator.
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- The system also offers plenty of room to grow. It gives you
- a total of eight drive bays, five of them externally
- accessible. You get eight 8/16-bit slots, four of which are
- free because one's slot cover holds extra I/O ports. The
- system also has a proprietary 32-bit local bus slot, which
- according to Big Elephant accepts only Big Elephant's Cache
- Point 32 video board. It's unoccupied and can double as a
- regular 8/16-bit ISA slot.
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- As for service, all calls to Big Elephant's tech support
- were answered quickly, politely, and almost completely
- accurately. Tech support is also available through a
- fax-back program. Big Elephant provides a year of free
- on-site service and two-day turnaround on factory repairs.
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- You'd expect to pay top dollar for such an accomplished
- system, but at $2595 the Big Elephant is one of the least
- expensive systems in the review. You can't go wrong with
- high system performance, good expandability, low price, and
- excellent customer service in one machine. That winning
- combination makes this machine the overall Best Buy.