On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 23:23, Michael Torrie wrote: > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 23:13, Bryan Murdock wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > There's gotta be someone on this list who is the type of geek that is > > always up-to-date on the latest north bridges, south bridges, BIOSes, > > motherboards, RAM, etc. I'm looking at getting a new barebones system > > and I'm wondering what the latest scoop on all the above is. Last time > > I got up to speed on this ASUS, and ABIT were the must-have motherboard > > brands, with some chipset that I can't remember, and you totally had to > > avoid some other new intel chipset, and the DDR vs. Rambus debate was > > just flaring up. What's the scoop today? In particular, I'm seeing > > some bargain boards with some VIA chipsets and some Asus motherboad with > > the SiS 648 on the north bridge and SiS 963L on the South Bridge. Oh, > > and what's up with these half-megawatt power supplies? Do I need to > > update my circuit breakers before I bring one of these monsters home? > > Don't you mean half a kilowatt (500 Watt)? You'll need that if you run > a lot of disks and the fastest hungriest video card. For most > applications 250 to 300 watts are fine.
OK, so I got a little carried away with my exageration, but you seriously can build a system that needs a 500 Watt power supply!?! That's insane. I'm sure it would be an awesome system, but it's still insane. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
