Hi again, Thanks for all the help so far from Roger, Paul and Shane. To save some money, I was thinking of using my Iomega ZipCD 650 CDRW with this configuration. Does anyone have any experience using a CDRW USB 1 with Mandrake 8? Any problems. By the way, the main caveats for my configuration are as follows:
1) As little legacy stuff as possible. No ISA ports and a minimum of serial and paralel ports. 2) This is a $US 1,000 box so while a Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Platinum w/ Live! sound card and a ATI Radeon AIW 32mg video card sound great, I am not sure that I can squeeze those into my budget. The point about CPU slowdown with onboard sound is well taken however, and I will try to find a dooable alternative. Here is a reminder of the original configuration with the extra RAM added, which I understand is a must: - Pentium IV 1.6GHz - Mainboard Intel D845BG - Memory 512MB DDR Ram - Harddisk 40GB 7200Rpm IDE - VGA Geforce2MX-200 64MB - FDD 1.44MB - Casing ATX P4 300Watt - Sound Onboard - Speaker Active - FireWire Card 3 ports - USB 4 ports (support 2.0) - NIC Ethernet 10/100 Mbps - Zip Internal 250MB - 17" Viewsonic E70 Cheers, Brian
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