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Re: New hardware advice please...

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From: simeon
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:00
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On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:57:05 GMT, Mr. Paul <olde@heterosexual.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:38:37 +0100, Tim Joseph <tim@josep.demon.co.uk>
>wrote:
>>
>>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
>

Just got my AIWPro working - very nice;-) However if you're worried about
video cards check out www.xfree86.org and follow the links to the docs - 
should give you all the info you require to see if your card will work

>>3. Audio Card
>
>AWE 64 Gold works great for me.  Can never hurt to stay with the
>standard.

Vibra16 is fine (I hook it througha yamaha wavetable which improves 
it no end, although I don't think there's XG support yet)
>
>>4. Internal IDE (ATAPI) Zip Drive

A vast improvement in speed over the parallel port version I used to have

>>5. Hard drive (Ultra ATA DMA) and CDROM are both standard (IDE?).
>
No disk troubles with any of the seagate/maxtor/quantum which have 
been in my system.


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From: simeon@gandalf.farrin.org.uk ()
Subject: Re: New hardware advice please...
Date: 1998/08/21
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