On Monday 31 Mar 2003 9:43 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: > Here's a link to what I believe is that board/cpu you mention. It appears > you will need PC133 SDRAM, and I'll bet your other cyrix/IBM has PC100 at > best. You might need a better Power Supply- at least 250watts, but some > smaller ones will work, if the output on the 5v and 3volt lines is > adequate- you never know, but since it's a low power board, you might get > away with it. However, I would bet that any retail cyrix/ibm rig is going > to have an el cheapo power supply. > My SDRAM is fairly recent, though I can't remember exactly what it is. I generally buy branded memory, so I would expect it to work, if not at optimal.
I hve a spare 300w power supply that could be swapped in. > htttp://www.pcchips.com.tw/product/M787cl+v30.html > This could well be the mobo, though it's difficult to be certain. > I built a box for a person using a PChips SIS board with that AMR slot, and > could never get the onboard modem to work, with the drivers that came with > the board, or ones I got on the net. Had to use a PCI modem- cost about $10 > more. I have adsl over lan, so that's no problem, either. > Also, it will use some of the ram for video (settable), so that's a > consideration. Well, if the existing stick isn't big enough, at least memory is cheap. Against that, if I were going for an up to date system I would be buying DDR, and would need to replace all of it. > Otherwise, it worked good, and since performance is not your > real issue, I guess it would suffice for your needs. A good stick of 256MB > PC133 shouldn't be more that $30 US, and you could sell your 128MB (if it's > PC100). > > Mandrake will do much better with 256MB or more ram, especially if you > like KDE or Gnome. Robert, I appreciate your comments. It looks as though this would be a sensible buy for a second box with relatively low processing requirements. All that remains is to hope that he's at the computer fair in Sheffield next weekend, and hasn't sold them all. Thanks Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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