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FEAR 5 HX mainboard, a couple of questions.

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From: Jeff Hartley
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:00
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I will be upgrading my PC from DX4-100 to P166 next weekend. I have had
a look at Scan Computers website and the FEAR 5 HX mainboard seems to be
the best board for me, it has upgradable cache, support for most types
of ram, plus it can take a P200 so it is a little future resistant. I
use Win95 and OS/2 Warp most of the time but I love flight sims, the
main reason for the P166 incedentally, does anybody know of any problems
installing these boards with either Win95 or Warp? I must confess having
never heard of the BIOS before (SMT ?) but the Triton II chipset seems
pretty popular.

Scan also sell a board with the Intel Endeavour chipset and an AMI BIOS
but the fly in the ointment is that is comes with a sound system on
board (Vibra 16), I already have an AWE32, can the sound system be
disabled on these boards? Would this type of board be a better bet than
the FEAR 5?

I have E-Mailed these questions to Scan but they don't seem to read
their mail so if somebody could help me out with an answer, I'd be very
grateful.

Thank you,

Regards, Jeff. 
jeff@jhartley.demon.co.uk
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