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Article #3178Re: Need help with Iwill slocket and celeron 500MHz
From: kony
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:58
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:58
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Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:45:51 GMT, benmyers@ultranet.com (Ben Myers)
wrote:
>The real problem here isn't proprietary. The board is a standard ATX
>form factor. The real problem here is product quality. From out of
>the past, the "Anigma" name strikes a blow for inferior hardware, just
>like all the Anigma 486 systems Gateway wants to forget about.
>
>The on-line documentation for this board is pretty minimal, compared
>to extensive motherboard manuals for other motherboards. The
>integrated video and sound are OK if you find them acceptable for your
>purposes. There are only 2 DIMM sockets vs. the usual 3. This board
>reeks of efforts to produce a dirt cheap computer... Ben Myers
>
Dirt cheap? That board was used in a $3200 Destination multimedia
package. It had Creative Labs sound, and hardware DVD, with Rambus
memory/bus onboard. The video chip alone was $100 in bulk, a
programmable VLIW MMX "co-processor". It was probably one of the
most expensive *PC* motherboards of it's time. Sure, it's blown away
by current technology, but back then ('97) it was a great board,
perfect for those folks that had no desire to rebuild their system
piece-by-piece.
It's main failing is the reseller, not it's quality.
Dave
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