RE: Hardware Compatibility

[William Harris <wharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to everyone for replying.

I will look into the Celeron "A" before going with the AMD chip, but I tend to go for AMD (support the underdog, get a decent processor for , usually, a lot fewer bucks; that kind of thing).

special thanks to Bob for the link, I looked at their page, and they have black listed the sound blaster live, Creative labs won't release the information people would need to write drivers for it. No open source, no support.

I'm tempted to go with it anyway, this machine will primarily be a windoze game machine, and I've heard/read amazing things about the abilities they threw into this board. (the DSP processor alone has more computing ability than a 486).

as for SCSI, the main advantage it has over UDMA is processor usage. If you've ever been running an application and noticed the system slow down about the same time you hear your hard drive kicking on, it's because the IDE interface is almost completely dependant upon the processor, where the SCSI interface is only like 5% dependant upon it.

( I think the latest crop of interfaces puts UDMA up to 66meg/sec, and SCSI4 at like 80meg/sec.  	technology rolls on.)

Thanks for the links, and opinions.

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