Author: Francis Monkman
Date: 07:13:23 03/22/00
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On March 22, 2000 at 07:41:02, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 22, 2000 at 05:58:11, Francis Monkman wrote: > >>On March 21, 2000 at 21:27:23, chris sergel wrote: >> >>>Thank you both for your comments. >>>I'm going to try this new "athlon" chip. >>>I appreciate your time. >>>Sincerely, >> >>I second the reservation about high-end graphics card(s). I got a Matrox G400 >>for my Athlon 700, without realizing that the Athlon/Matrox combo is reputed to >>be problematical, and have found it somewhat unstable. Apart from that, great. >> >>Francis Monkman > >I wasn't aware that Matroxes (Matroxi?) are unstable. > I should have said "AMD/Matrox", as the problems *rumoured* to exist probably derive from the K6/2/3. I've used Matrox before, like their cards, so it was disappointing to find that such a rumour existed. I'm not yet convinced of the stability of W98 either, but undoubtedly I get some weird graphics problems that various updates haven't (yet?) cured.
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