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At 16:23 10/11/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>5. 52X CDROM drives are cheap & Sonys seem to last longer than most
>these days.

my acer cdroms are still going after several years. ditto for my seagate 
hard drive (although if you can afford it i recommend an IBM glass platter 
drive.... heavy, but very quiet and i've yet to hear from anyone who has 
had a problem with one.

the TNT2 is the most awesome cheap agp card i agree. Picked one up a month 
ago for $85 (an M64 but it is wonderful and more decent than the i740 with 
heat issues that it replaced)

If you want a really good quality sound card for a cheap price, go the 
C-Media 8738. I picked one up a couple of weeks ago for ~$30 and it's six 
channel. My dvd software and my games love it to death. runs straight up in 
linux too. they're also adding support for all 6 channels into the kernel 
(as of 2.4.9 last kernel i ran on my machine) and i have read that it's 
going quite well.

for a 10/100 network card, personally i would stay away from the realtek 
813x chipset. my SO has one that is just the dodgiest card I have ever 
seen. I have an SMC that is based on that chipset and I still get issues 
every now and then (I didn't purchase it, @home gave it with their cable 
modem). I'd go something that runs on the tulip driver such as a DECchip. 
Even a generic ne2000 would be better off.

Anyway, if I could afford an upgrade I'd offload the AMD 300 we have 
here.personally i would think if you don't want to use it for running X, a 
486 would do fine. our 586 here runs console applications. it's our games 
server, router, and anything else we think we can get it to run. it started 
with 8 meg of ram which was a little slow for logging in, but we upped that 
to 24 (four 8 meg sticks which for some reason it won't acknowlege all as 8 
it decided two of them were 4 meg...) and it runs like a dream. 
unfortunately it crashed the other day whilst trying to fileserve on an 
eggdrop bot but I think that was more my dodgy config than anything it 
couldn't handle. kernel compiles take a few hours but it can do that *and* 
serve as gateway.... and if there was something else you wanted to do just 
pipe the kernel compile through nice....

NB: I tried it with 4 meg of ram to begin with. it was impossible to log in 
as it didn't have enough power to display the password prompt before the 
login timed out.

Oh yeah, and the video card is an old 1 meg trident 8900. works like a charm.

Anyway, enough rambling.

Sandra.

silne at optushome.com.au
ICQ: 7632763

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