--- Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's a good video card that has solid support in XFree86?
From what I am told, the best choice for Open Source drivers is ATI. The
NVidia line is a better performer, and solid, but the drivers are
binary-only.
I don't believe that NVidia
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote:
I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly
recall compiling the drivers for my TNT2 card.
These Open Source drivers were contributed by NVidia, but they are
maintained by XFree, and their functionality and
--- Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote:
I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly
recall compiling the drivers for my TNT2 card.
These Open Source drivers were contributed by NVidia, but they are
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote:
I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly
recall
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:
FWIW, IIRC you do not need to buy Athlon MP processors to use them in
SMP configurations.
You don't need to use Athlon MP chips for a SMP box, but you should.
In order to make newer Athlon XP's do
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From: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Greater NH Linux Users' Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: (OT) Hardware Pointers
[snip]
The PC shows are strictly caveat emptor. You can and will find
reputable
vendors selling
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:50am, Michael Costolo wrote:
The BIOS that comes with the ABIT boards. I've seen it called SoftBIOS and
SoftMENU.
[...]
http://www.ocaddiction.com/articles/howto/kt7abiostweakguide/index.shtml
Ahh, okay. It is a BIOS Setup interface to CPU settings. Nice. The
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On a side note, speaking of hardware, I'd like to mention a very
disturbing experience I had at a computer show in Salem N.H. yesterday
Complain to ncshows.com - quickly and thoroughly. They've been known
to kick out disreputable vendors, believe it or not.
On 21 Apr 2002, at 3:38pm, Rich Cloutier wrote:
Keep in mind that ANY new motherboard you buy today will have NO ISA
slots.
Not strictly true; you can still find them. However, ISA has become a
specialty item, and actually commands a higher price because of that.
I never go to hardware
On 21 Apr 2002, at 12:15pm, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
... hardware ... point me in the right directions ...
http://www.anandtech.com/
http://www.tomshardware.com
http://www.amdmb.com
http://www.maximumpc.com
I am looking to buy a new motherboard ...
http://www.asus.com
Ben Boulanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm quite happy with my AMD Athlon boxes.
I'm thinking about a new machine too. What motherboard do you have?
Would that be your recommendation now for an Athlon? For dual Athlons?
What's a good video card that has solid support in XFree86?
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, at 9:19pm, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
What motherboard do you have?
I have an Epox EP-8K7A+, and I have been very happy with it. No problems
to speak of. Board design and layout is impressive. The manual, while
still lacking in the detail I really want (remember when
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 21:19, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
Ben Boulanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm quite happy with my AMD Athlon boxes.
I'm thinking about a new machine too. What motherboard do you have?
Would that be your recommendation now for an Athlon? For dual Athlons?
I don't
On 22 Apr 2002, at 8:38pm, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
I don't know that I would spend the money on a dual Athlon board. Does
anyone really need that much power in a desktop system?
As alway, it depends.
If you compile code (i.e., software development) on a regular basis, two
CPUs is
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On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 21:19, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
I'm thinking about a new machine too. What motherboard do you have?
Would that be your recommendation now for an Athlon? For
Hi All,
As I am sure that there are people on this list that are far more
knowledgeable about hardware than I am, I was hoping that someone could
point me in the right directions. I am looking to buy a new motherboard
because the one that I have is fairly limited in it's upgrade path. With
a
On 21 Apr 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
point me in the right directions. I am looking to buy a new motherboard
because the one that I have is fairly limited in it's upgrade path. With
a new motherboard purchase, I am going to be making the jump into DDR
RAM (right now I still use PC100
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 12:15, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
Hi All,
As I am sure that there are people on this list that are far more
knowledgeable about hardware than I am, I was hoping that someone could
point me in the right directions. I am looking to buy a new motherboard
because the one
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote:
If you're upgrading your motherboard for other (various) reasons, I'm
quite happy with my AMD Athlon boxes. They're cheap, they're good. I
will tell you that you need to pay attention to the heatsink. I recently
burned up an older 1.33G of mine
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 15:40, Ken Ambrose wrote:
Insofar as DDR vs. SDR, well.. while I believe [faith w/o proof] in DDR
more, what's even more important than what kind of RAM is having -enough-
RAM. Try to make sure that you're hitting swap as little as possible;
while one kind of RAM may
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote:
Oh, as far as the PC2100, PC - just go with the fastest your board
will support. The rating is the bus speed that the memory runs at
(correct me if I'm wrong here!) 1600 is 100Mhz (effective 200Mhz, since
it's double data rate) and 2100 is
On 21 Apr 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
Well, I will be going with AMD. The board that I plan on getting is a
Shuttle AK35GT, maybe the AK35GTR (same board, but the latter has RAID).
The board had 4 slots for DDR RAM. I will most likely put in 1GB (either
2 512MB or 4 256MB). The problem is
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