Re: Hardware Compatibility

[Travis Dockweiler <tdockweiler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:00 PM 2/4/99 -0800, you wrote:

>ok where to start :)
>first... no need for an SB live unless u play alot of windows games or 
>do midi shtuff... the pci126 (or 64) will do eveything the live will 

what about environmental audio and support for 4 speakers? i think only the
pci128
does but i might be wrong. 
I think that's the main reason people would buy a sblive..and EAX.
heck, if you just want sound, your right, just get a cheap ESS card.

>CELERONS ARE BETTER AT 32bit CODE than AMD :)  ..... plain and simple... 
>a celery 300A or above is a p2/ppro type core 686 arch. and all.... but 
>if you REALLLLLLY want an AMD i wont stop you....

I'd rather buy an AMD over an Intel product any day. but yeah, I've heard alot
of good things about the Celeron, from what i heard it has a 450mhz (or
maybe it was 400) 
core. so when you put it in a BX board overclocking it to 467mhz is like no
problem.
heck all you need is one fan and the chip barely gets hot. 

I've also heard that some people have gotten the celeron 400a as high as
600mhz.
from what I've heard a celeron 400a is actually faster for games then a
Pentium II 400
because of the faster L2 Cache, but for apps it just plain sucks compared
to a pentium II.

if i were to buy an intel processor, it'd defiantly be the celeron over the
p2, mainly because i don't feel like 
paying a few hundred extra for practically the same thing. and i don't care
if my office apps start 2 seconds quicker.

>videocard.......... hmmm....... you sure you want matrox.... take a 
>glance at something nvidia based.... i have a rivaTNT based card with 16 
>megs ... accelerated in X... i've ran it up to 1600x1200x32bpp on a 
>borrowed monitor... and available mailorder for about 100.... (for the 
>creative labs) ....... 
>umm SCSI is nice....... :)  
>
>actually.... even celerons ... are better than amds at most code.... :) 
>and CHEAP!! :)    Celeron 300A (128k cache) last i looked was 56 dollars 
>or someting mail order.... and they hum beutifully on BH6's and P2B's   
>:) ....... (i have a 300a on a bh6 with 64 megs of ram)
>
>umm....... 128 is a good number ram is cheap...... buy some :)

have you even seen ram prices lately? locally 128megs is expensive anywhere
you go, even bestbuy.
i don't know their current price but I'm sure it's around 200.

I remember paying $64 for 64 megs a few months back, they just keep going
higher.
i saw 128mb of pc100 CAS Latency 2 SDRAM on some site for like $300, that's
way to expensive.