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Article #555Re: New hardware advice please...
From: simeon
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:00
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. -------------- Simeon W Farrington swf_unix@netcomuxk.co.uxk (remove the x's to reply)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,81acab7679109fe0 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: fac57,81acab7679109fe0 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac57,public X-Google-Thread: 102b32,81acab7679109fe0 X-Google-Attributes: gid102b32,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,81acab7679109fe0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,81acab7679109fe0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: simeon@gandalf.farrin.org.uk () Subject: Re: New hardware advice please... Date: 1998/08/21 Message-ID: <slrn6trflb.kk.simeon@gandalf.farrin.org.uk> X-Deja-AN: 383619285 References: <35DC894D.69B6203B@josep.demon.co> <35dd97be.61977598@news.arkansas.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@corp.netcom.net.uk X-Trace: taliesin.netcom.net.uk 903785986 2741 194.42.232.46 (22 Aug 1998 11:39:46 GMT) Organization: None. (via NETCOM Internet Ltd. USENET service). Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,demon.tech.unix