Re: Re(6): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-08 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote: Tell him to order it from Singapore. I used to get all my stuff there. :) (I lived in Bandung for a couple years. Seemed everytime I needed something, it was being ordered from Singapore.). Thanks for the info Ric, I would like to get the Soyo

Re: Re(6): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-08 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 00:44, Brian Durant wrote: Tell him to order it from Singapore. I used to get all my stuff there. :) (I lived in Bandung for a couple years. Seemed everytime I needed something, it was being ordered from Singapore.). Thanks for the info Ric, I would like to get the

Re(4): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Thread Brian Durant
The Soyo Dragon+ is reputed to ge a great MB. I'm looking at one myself, for an upcoming project. Just my 206 rupiah worth. ;) Unfortunately, my tech states that there is no reliable supplier for the Soyo here in Indonesia 8-( Cheers, Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Thread FemmeFatale
A sound suggestion... Go for an OEM SBLive! card... very cheap, heck goto Future shop. THey sometimes have returned ones...that are both cheap useful ;p I found hardware hacks to turn an SB 512 I believe into an SBLive too ;p As an aside, Xgamer/Mp3+/Live! are all the same. Just diff s/w

Re: [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Thread FemmeFatale
SNIP 1) As little legacy stuff as possible. No ISA ports and a minimum of serial and paralel ports. A couple of empty ISA ports won't really do any harm, unless you need to plug in heaps of PCI cards. Whatever you do, your CPU chipset will still have ISA support enabled, so there is no real

Re: [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Thread FemmeFatale
Early Athys (athlons) were heat prone. The newer ones, are not as much. In fact from what little i've read, they seem to beon par with Intels. As for the numbers they use, ignore it. Read a decent tech site like www.arstechnica.com get the lowdown on how fast the chip actually runs. Amd

Re: Re(2): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:28:41 +0700, Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I strongly recommend an AMD-based system. You can get better bang-for-buck that way. Someone else on the list recommended a Soyo Dragon motherboard. I second that recommendation. It has built-in sound and ethernet

Re: [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 04:01:26 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP 1) As little legacy stuff as possible. No ISA ports and a minimum of serial and paralel ports. A couple of empty ISA ports won't really do any harm, unless you need to plug in heaps of PCI cards. Whatever you

RE: Re(2): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Thread Neil Davidson
The 1800+ model number (it is _not_ the MHz speed) means this is as fast or faster than a Pentium 4 going at 1800MHz. I think the PR rating is the equivalent speed compared to the Thunderbird based Athlons (the ones that went up to 1.4GHz. I think they may get into hot water if they compared

RE: Re(2): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Thread Franki
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Durant Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2002 3:29 PM To: Newbie Mandrake Subject: Re(2): [newbie] Building a PC (2). Again, I strongly recommend an AMD-based system. You can get better bang-for-buck that way. Someone else on the list recommended a Soyo Dragon

Re: Re(2): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Thread shane
no proof either, but i do know i burned up 3 of their cpus in the early k-6 and before that models. i also know i have overclocked the 750 i have now and run it non-stop with a fair load. problem solved if you ask me, but then nobody did. :-) On Thursday 07 February 2002 04:56, you spoke

Re: Re(4): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-07 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 02:08, Brian Durant wrote: The Soyo Dragon+ is reputed to ge a great MB. I'm looking at one myself, for an upcoming project. Just my 206 rupiah worth. ;) Unfortunately, my tech states that there is no reliable supplier for the Soyo here in Indonesia 8-( Tell him

[newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-06 Thread Brian Durant
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

Re: [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:45:06 +0700, Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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