On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:50am, Michael Costolo wrote:
> The BIOS that comes with the ABIT boards. I've seen it called SoftBIOS and
> SoftMENU.
[...]
> http://www.ocaddiction.com/articles/howto/kt7abiostweakguide/index.shtml
Ahh, okay. It is a "BIOS Setup" interface to CPU settings. Nice. T
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From: "Benjamin Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Greater NH Linux Users' Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: (OT) Hardware Pointers
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> The PC shows are strictly caveat
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> FWIW, IIRC you do not need to buy Athlon MP processors to use them in
> SMP configurations.
You don't need to use Athlon MP chips for a SMP box, but you should.
In order to make newer Athlon XP's do
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At some point hitherto, Michael Costolo hath spake thusly:
> --- Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote:
> > > I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly
> > > r
--- Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote:
> > I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly
> > recall compiling the drivers for my TNT2 card.
>
> These Open Source drivers were contributed by NVidia, but the
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote:
> I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly
> recall compiling the drivers for my TNT2 card.
These Open Source drivers were contributed by NVidia, but they are
maintained by XFree, and their functionality and p
--- Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What's a good video card that has solid support in XFree86?
>
> From what I am told, the best choice for Open Source drivers is ATI. The
> NVidia line is a better performer, and solid, but the drivers are
> binary-only.
I don't believe that N
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At some point hitherto, Kenneth E. Lussier hath spake thusly:
> On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 21:19, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> > I'm thinking about a new machine too. What motherboard do you have?
> > Would that be your recommendation now for an Athlon? F
On 22 Apr 2002, at 8:38pm, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> I don't know that I would spend the money on a dual Athlon board. Does
> anyone really need that much power in a desktop system?
As alway, "it depends".
If you compile code (i.e., software development) on a regular basis, two
CPUs is def
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 21:19, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
>
> Ben Boulanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I'm quite happy with my AMD Athlon boxes.
>
> I'm thinking about a new machine too. What motherboard do you have?
> Would that be your recommendation now for an Athlon? For dual Athlons?
I
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, at 9:19pm, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> What motherboard do you have?
I have an Epox EP-8K7A+, and I have been very happy with it. No problems
to speak of. Board design and layout is impressive. The manual, while
still lacking in the detail I really want (remember when co
Ben Boulanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I'm quite happy with my AMD Athlon boxes.
I'm thinking about a new machine too. What motherboard do you have?
Would that be your recommendation now for an Athlon? For dual Athlons?
What's a good video card that has solid support in XFree86?
On 21 Apr 2002, at 12:15pm, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> ... hardware ... point me in the right directions ...
http://www.anandtech.com/
http://www.tomshardware.com
http://www.amdmb.com
http://www.maximumpc.com
> I am looking to buy a new motherboard ...
http://www.asus.com
http://ww
On 21 Apr 2002, at 3:38pm, Rich Cloutier wrote:
> Keep in mind that ANY new motherboard you buy today will have NO ISA
> slots.
Not strictly true; you can still find them. However, ISA has become a
specialty item, and actually commands a higher price because of that.
> I never go to hardware
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said, in part:
>>> On a side note, speaking of hardware, I'd like to mention a very
>>>disturbing experience I had at a computer show in Salem N.H. yesterday
Complain to ncshows.com - quickly and thoroughly. They've been known
to kick out disreputable vendors, believe it or no
On 21 Apr 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> Well, I will be going with AMD. The board that I plan on getting is a
> Shuttle AK35GT, maybe the AK35GTR (same board, but the latter has RAID).
> The board had 4 slots for DDR RAM. I will most likely put in 1GB (either
> 2 512MB or 4 256MB). The problem
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote:
> Oh, as far as the PC2100, PC - just go with the fastest your board
> will support. The rating is the bus speed that the memory runs at
> (correct me if I'm wrong here!) 1600 is 100Mhz (effective 200Mhz, since
> it's double data rate) and 2100 is
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 15:40, Ken Ambrose wrote:
>
> Insofar as DDR vs. SDR, well.. while I "believe" [faith w/o proof] in DDR
> more, what's even more important than what kind of RAM is having -enough-
> RAM. Try to make sure that you're hitting swap as little as possible;
> while one kind of RA
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote:
> If you're upgrading your motherboard for other (various) reasons, I'm
> quite happy with my AMD Athlon boxes. They're cheap, they're good. I
> will tell you that you need to pay attention to the heatsink. I recently
> burned up an older 1.33G of mine
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 12:15, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As I am sure that there are people on this list that are far more
> knowledgeable about hardware than I am, I was hoping that someone could
> point me in the right directions. I am looking to buy a new motherboard
> because the
On 21 Apr 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> point me in the right directions. I am looking to buy a new motherboard
> because the one that I have is fairly limited in it's upgrade path. With
> a new motherboard purchase, I am going to be making the jump into DDR
> RAM (right now I still use PC100
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