Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 13:37:20 08/06/01
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On August 06, 2001 at 14:49:35, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >Hi Bruce, > >>A link would help here. >>I spent a while trying to find this and couldn't. >>bruce > >I work at the moment for a German hardware / software dealer. >We have the following favorite system for our customers. > >Big Tower AOpen, 300 Watt >ABit VP6 Motherboard >2x 1GHz Intel Pentium III EB Copermine prozessors >4x 256 MB Infinion C2 RAM (1GB) >2x Pabst Cooler >Matrox G450 Dual Head, 32 MB, very good performance for 2D >1x Creative Soundblaster Live >1x IBM 40GB Festplatte, 7200 >1x Asus CD-500, 50x >1x Teac CD W512-E, 12-10-32 >1x Teac Disk drive >1x Logitech Desktop > >This system is very stabil and very low (leise in German, hope "low" is the >right word). > >The ABit motherboard have a "raid controler" on board. >Interesting is to buy 2x a good harddisk, like IBM and Maxtor. > >I tested in the firm a lot of hardware combination with GForce II, or ASUS and >MSI dual boards, like this combination. > >If you will overclocked this dual system (possible, my system work with 1.05 >GHz, FSB with 140, possible also 1.2 GHz) you need other cooler. No problem for >Infinion RAM, Matrox grafic and the Abit overclocker dual board to adjust more >than 2x 1GHz. > >I don`t know it's a problem to buy this hardware combination in Amerika? >If not, MSI dual board with MSI grafic card :-) I found this: Abit VP6 w/Pentium III 1000Mhz 1Ghz ( 2 ) FCPGA Coppermine 133Mhz CPU & Fan $509.35 On Sale BZP# - VP6P1Ghz VP6 Dual Socket ATA-100 ATX W/ IDE RAID 4x slot 5 PCI 2 USB 4 DIMMS 133FSBMhz , High Point HPT370 IDE Contr with Intel Oem Processor and fan, Upgrade options are available. at http://www.bzboyz.com/store/mb_abit.html It this exactly what you suggest? A friend of mine also suggested me Abit VP6 as motherboard. I am really considering buyin a dual, maybe not now but in the near future. Still a bit expensive for my hobby but it will help tremendously. I should be able to learn how to program SMP and it will help for development, testing in matches with ponder on. Moreover, I could be running chess software while I am typing my biochemistry papers (i.e. working)! Speed is more important for development than for using the software! It should not be very difficult to build this by myself, wouldn't it? I need a really cheap video and sound card. One question, I saw that this motherboard does not have ISA slots. Is that suppose to be a problem? or an advantage? Regards, Miguel > >Best >Frank
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