On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, skinky wrote:
OTH, I have onboard sound (AC97) on a Soltek SL-75KAV mobo and later
installed a pci SB 5.1 Live! card: No problems at all. So ?
skinky
Heh...YMMV
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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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
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
Ok, I am getting closer to my goal, but still have a few questions:
1) For those on the list using the Soyo Dragon+. I see that there is a
sound card built into the motherboard (C-Media 6 Channel Sound Card). Any
problems with Mandrake recognition of the card or performance problems
with
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote:
Ok, I am getting closer to my goal, but still have a few questions:
1) For those on the list using the Soyo Dragon+. I see that there is a
sound card built into the motherboard (C-Media 6 Channel Sound Card). Any
problems with Mandrake recognition of
On Saturday 09 February 2002 19:51, Roger Sherman wrote:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote:
Ok, I am getting closer to my goal, but still have a few questions:
1) For those on the list using the Soyo Dragon+. I see that there is a
sound card built into the motherboard (C-Media 6
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
FYI, if you use Windows 98, don't bother with more than 512 mb of RAM, 2k will
address up to 3 gb.
Linux I don't know, but after about 512mb even in linux I'd bet you won't see a
huge performance boost ;p
Unless you do intense grafx work with GIMP. I'm sure someone else can correct
or confirm
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
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
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
FYI, if you use Windows 98, don't bother with more than 512 mb of RAM, 2k
will
address up to 3 gb.
Linux I don't know, but after about 512mb even in linux I'd bet you won't
see a
huge performance boost ;p
Unless you do intense grafx work with GIMP. I'm sure someone else can
correct
or
On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 03:41:56 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
FYI, if you use Windows 98, don't bother with more than 512 mb of RAM, 2k will
address up to 3 gb.
Linux I don't know, but after about 512mb even in linux I'd bet you won't see
a huge performance boost ;p
Unless you
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
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
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
:[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
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
very nice - I like ; )
skinky
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On Thursday 07 February 2002 11:51, Roger Sherman wrote:
I just put together a new PC about three days ago, with an AMD XP1800 cpu
and an Abit KG7 motherboard. It rocks pretty hard...
Also under the hood (in case you care)
On Friday 08 February 2002 02:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
The Linux philosophy is unused RAM is wasted RAM. After all, there's no
point in having the RAM you spent good money on sitting around doing
nothing. Unlike Windows, Linux will try to fill up _all_ of your RAM. If
there is any left
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
Hi again,
I am in the process of getting a PC built and would like some comments
from the list as to the proposed configuration vis a vis Mandrake 8 Power
Pack:
Hardware:
- Pentium IV 1.6GHz
- Mainboard Intel D845BG
- Memory 256MB DDR Ram
- Harddisk 40GB 7200Rpm IDE
- VGA Geforce2MX-200 64MB
-
a few cents of worth...
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 01:01, you spoke unto me thusly:
- Pentium IV 1.6GHz
go AMD, get more speed, pay less.
- Mainboard Intel D845BG
- Memory 256MB DDR Ram
you can never have enough RAM, spend the money saved above here. ;-)
- Sound Onboard
check that
Hi Shane,
My comments follow:
a few cents of worth...
go AMD, get more speed, pay less.
Any suggestions as to an AMD configuration, motherboard, etc? I am new at
this 8-)
you can never have enough RAM, spend the money saved above here. ;-)
OK
check that chip, i always have trouble with
check that chip, i always have trouble with onboard anything..
People seem to really love the Soyo Dragon+. It has onboard sound, and
10/100 ethernet, but seems to work well with Linux. It also comes with
two front-side usb ports, some silicone for the heatsink, optical audio
ports, etc.
I can't answer everything, but I'll see what I can do...
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:01:49 +0700, Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi again,
I am in the process of getting a PC built and would like some comments
from the list as to the proposed configuration vis a vis Mandrake 8 Power
Pack:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote:
Hi Shane,
My comments follow:
a few cents of worth...
go AMD, get more speed, pay less.
Any suggestions as to an AMD configuration, motherboard, etc? I am new at
this 8-)
I just put together a new PC about three days ago, with an AMD XP1800 cpu
On 6 Feb 2002, Paul [ISO-8859-1] RodrÃguez wrote:
cd-r's and cd-rw's are by far the cheapest backup medium right now.
CD-R's are worth something like $.33 each, and they hold 650-700 MB.
Very convenient since they can be read by all computers. Very easy to
burn cd's in Linux btw, in case
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 06:52:48 +0800
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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
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
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