Except for notebook computers and one ancient desktop that I bought used, I haven't bought an off-the-shelf computer for 20 years, and I'm not about to change my habits to enjoy my FLEX-5000 when it arrives.
My current shack computer is a 1GHz PIII on an Asus motherboard (the only brand I've bought for the last 15 years). It already has a P4-compatible power supply of adequate capacity, a PCI-bus Firewire card (Adaptec, IIRC -- for capturing video from a digital camcorder), and a PCI-bus multi-serial card. I have a spare ATI X300 PCI-Express video card that I could use. If I replace the mobo and CPU by an Asus M2N-E or M2N-SLI Deluxe (the latter has Firewire on board but only one IDE connection) and an AMD AM2 dual-core CPU rated at 5000 or more, and install 2GB of RAM, does anybody know of any problems I might face with PowerSDR and the rig? OK, I know already that I'll have to reinstall WinXP from scratch and convince some person in India that I'm not trying to cheat Micro$oft, but other than that...? 73 Alan NV8A _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
