Flint Heart on Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:50:08 -0400


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RE: [PLUG] please comment on my new computer specs


I suggested the asus to him just for asus' long term support of boards and
 personal preforance to them.  I liked when i got my first athlon system
 and when other ppl where having reboot or lockup issues with their athlons
 and geforce's I was safe.  if you notice Darxus' existing hardware, He doesn't upgrade
 
 like most computer geeks do.  I wana make sure there are bios patchs for him
 2 years down the road.  As for the graphics card bottleneck, I've already
 talked to him about it.  He's not a big gamer so I haven't pressed the
 issue that hard.  I'm just glad he's getting a current system. vs. a 233
 pII.  and the iwill is a completely different chipset than the gigbyt and
 asus boards.  ( there were issues with batchs of via kt133  chips that
 couldn't be used at 133. I'd rather stear clear of that potential
 mindfield and have him jump on something with ddr ram support)

 N-Tropy

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Bob Razler wrote:

> Yes.  I agree.  I think the GigaByte board was a little more stable in the
> tests I saw, but the Iwill has been out forever and has held up without
> issues.
> 
> Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Jonas [mailto:bill@billjonas.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:10 PM
> To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] please comment on my new computer specs
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:27:43PM -0400, Bob Razler wrote:
> > I also like the Giga-byte GA-7DXR for a more expensive board.  It has 
> > onboard IDE RAID.  Very stable as well.
> 
> I'll throw in my two cents and recommend the iWill KK266-R
> <http://www.iwill.net/products/spec.asp?ModelName=KK266-R&SupportID=>.
> It cost me ~$130 at newegg.com, has a 266MHz front-side bus, AGP, two serial
> ports, 5 or 6 PCI slots, 1 ISA (in case I have the odd bit of old kit that I
> need to throw in there), 3 SDRAM slots... and IDE RAID. Looks like it's
> under $120 now.
> 
> Also, I'll vouch for Newegg -- my single order so far from them has been a
> pleasant experience.  They're also spoken of quite highly on
> resellerratings.com.
> 
> -- 
> Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
> "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others,  we should be
> glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and
> this we should do freely and generously."          -- Benjamin Franklin
> 
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