[ale] looking to upgrade

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Sat Oct 12 19:18:30 EDT 2002


Man I guess you guys had a good time at the installfest...  I couldn't 
make it after all, but couldn't figure that out till this morning.  I'd 
like to hear how it went.

I'm looking at purchasing a new mb, and I'm focused on the asus a7v8x. 
Looks promising and get's pretty decent reviews.  Anyone have any 
experiences with this board.  Down side is that although it supports the 
new PC3200-DDR400, I've read various concerns from no difference in 
performance between that and the DDR333 as well as one that indicated 
that you couldn't use but one stick of DDR400 memory on this board.

Regardless, it's a hell of a jump from my current celeron 400, since my 
800 died and I had to drop back to the 400.

One other question.  This thing comes with an 8x agp, but my current vid 
card is 4x.  Will the 4x work?  I'm not really looking at upgrading the 
vid card just yet.  I was hoping that the agp would work like memory and 
hard drives, in that you could put 'slower' stuff in there and it would 
still work.

Any insights would be appreciated.

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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