On Tuesday 04 February 2003 06:50 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Tue, February 4 2003 11:38 pm, BCSoft wrote: > : Greetings, > : Just bought (on impulse -- damn) an Athalon K7SEM mb by some generic > : vendor at a recent computer show. It's working (dual boot W98/ML9) but > : not without some trials. I'm wondering if the all-in-one type of board > : has more problems than the add-a-card. Rich > > My friend.. if you bought an all-in-one card, you've just seriously limited > your upgradeability. I have almost never seen an all-in-one card with a > decent video card, and, not only that, but they almost never have an AGP > slot, so if you decide to upgrade the video card, you're buying a whole new > motherboard. onboard sound is usually decent, as well as onboard > ethernet.. but I try to stay as far away from onboard video, as I can. for the "normal" overpowered word processor/ dumb termanal emulator/ office computer/ internet browser, it is fine,,, works good as a print server, or firewall, not bad as a file server. but for those lan parties... you really do need an as/400..
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