[ale] looking to upgrade

[George Johnson]

I like going to www.sharkeyextreme.com to look at their tests of the game
systems.  I usually mix my hardware btw the high end system and mid range.
It has worked so far.

By the way thanks to those that hung in there while my SuSE machine FINALLY
got thru upgrading to 8.0.  I have learned my lesson and will take some of
the items that I do not need off when I figure out how to do so without
killing the items I DO want.

george



-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 7:19 PM
To: ALE
Subject: [ale] looking to upgrade


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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