On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Khepri wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
> >
> > I shy away from boards with onboard components, buying halfway decent
> > PCI/AGP cards. I have onboard sound on my current board (Asus A7V333), but
> > it didn't come _without_ sound, and I use a Soundblaster Live! anyhow.
> > And never, ever buy a winmodem. You may save on the purchase, but you'll
> > pay for it later.
>
> Yeah, I ran into that on the other P2..it had a HSP winmodem in it,
> musta have come that way because in my pre-high-speed days I usually
> stuck with USRobotics stuff or Boca, I think it was called?....
"Boca Research" springs to mind...
> From what I've seen of the two OSes I decided to chalk it up to Windows is
> crap...lol
Well yeah, but that goes without saying.
> oh out of curiosity sake I still run 98...I'd probably get better memory
> mangement and better file sys upgrading, why bother? Seems most viruses
> out the are written for the NT group...they can have em'...:)
I'm fixing up a machine for my grandmother -- a donated ancient Macintosh.
When I say 'ancient' I mean it -- a blistering-fast 75 MHz CPU and a whole
24 megabytes of RAM. 28.8 dialup, too, although I may get a 56K modem.
Probably doesn't meet most malware's minimum specs.
> Well it's good to hear there's another ASUS board out there not causing
> a fuss....
Two actually -- I have an A7V266-E running XP as a Tivo-wannabe.
One small thing -- the USB ports no longer do high speed (on the 333; the
266 never did). Maybe upgrading to 2.6 would fix that. Dunno; not
important enough.
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