Of course, if you want performance you don't buy an integrated board. There's no problem with those ECS motherboards that I've heard of, and you can upgrade from the integrated components. If you do add an AGP graphics card or sound card some day (and you can) you have to remember to disable the integrated video and sound in the BIOS or you WILL have problems.
So what kind of trouble have you been having in Linux with it? -Allan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of et Sent: February 4, 2003 8:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] all-in-one mb thread (kinda rant) On Tuesday 04 February 2003 06:50 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Tue, February 4 2003 11:38 pm, BCSoft wrote: > : Greetings, > : Just bought (on impulse -- damn) an Athalon K7SEM mb by some generic > : vendor at a recent computer show. It's working (dual boot W98/ML9) but > : not without some trials. I'm wondering if the all-in-one type of board > : has more problems than the add-a-card. Rich > > My friend.. if you bought an all-in-one card, you've just seriously limited > your upgradeability. I have almost never seen an all-in-one card with a > decent video card, and, not only that, but they almost never have an AGP > slot, so if you decide to upgrade the video card, you're buying a whole new > motherboard. onboard sound is usually decent, as well as onboard > ethernet.. but I try to stay as far away from onboard video, as I can. for the "normal" overpowered word processor/ dumb termanal emulator/ office computer/ internet browser, it is fine,,, works good as a print server, or firewall, not bad as a file server. but for those lan parties... you really do need an as/400..
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