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From: Mr. Paul
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:00

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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:38:37 +0100, Tim Joseph <tim@josep.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
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>1. Intel Pentium II 300MHz, Intel 440BX Chipset

I have PII 266 and it works like a dream

>2. Video Card
>either    8mb ATI 3D Xpert98
>or        8mb Matrox Productiva G100
>or        8mb Hercules Terminator 128/3D AGP

ATI All in Wonder Pro 2x 8Mb AGP works great for me.  They use the
same chipset which is Mach64 so you shouldn't have any problems with
the XPert98

>3. Audio Card
>either    Creative Labs AWE65 Wavetable Soundcard
>or        Ensoniq AudioPCI on board
>or        Creative Labs SoundBlaster Vibra 16 Soundcard

AWE 64 Gold works great for me.  Can never hurt to stay with the
standard.

>4. Internal IDE (ATAPI) Zip Drive
>
>5. Hard drive (Ultra ATA DMA) and CDROM are both standard (IDE?).

My Quantum Bigfoot 12Gb drive is Ultra ATA and I havent had any
problems out of it yet.  The first one I received was bad but the new
one has worked perfectly

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From: olde@heterosexual.com (Mr. Paul)
Subject: Re: New hardware advice please...
Date: 1998/08/21
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