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RE: [PLUG] please comment on my new computer specs
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Clearly all us hardware junkies will have our own preferences. I like
Tyan boards the best, then Asus and Abit. With the DDR Athlon solutions
still shaking out, I relied on the recommendations from places like
Arstechnica and Anandtech.
I am pretty sure all 3 boards will serve him well.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Flint Heart
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:34 AM
To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
Subject: 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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