On Wednesday 21 August 2002 11:26 am, you wrote: > I'm thinking about a new system, and at the moment I'm leaning towards > the Soyo SY-P4S-645DX DRAGON Ultra motherboard. The chipset is > SiS 645DX with a SiS 961B "southbridge". The Mandrake "hardware > compatibility" database doesn't have these listed either way. > > The MB does have ATA/133 "RAID", but I'm not really interested in using > that. (I've seen the postings about problems with that part.) > > To go with this MB, I'm thinking about a P4 at 2.23GHz with 533MHz FSB, > 1GB of PC2700 DDR RAM, a 7200 RPM ATA/133 disk, a 128 MB ATI All-in- > Wonder 8500DV video card, and an NFREN 18.1" NF-1800MAP LCD monitor. > (Yeah, I know, both the video card and monitor have TV tuners. :-) > Should be noticably faster than the 233 MHz MMX box I'm writing this > on. :-) > > Anyway, I'd like to know if anyone has booted the above mentioned MB > (or chipset) under either Mandrake 8.1 or 8.2? (What kernel did you > use?) > > Clark last I heard, ATI 8500 cards do not have XFree support (but it is comming, and it works in Frame Buffer well, but no 3d) and Win9x ain't booting with that much ram (I know, you did not ask about dual booting) sometimes the very bleeding edge hardware does not have the support you might wish for when configuring it. also, you don't mention who made the hard drive and how big it will be. (both very important).
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