On Sunday 04 February 2007 07:34, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote: > Many thanks for your encouraging reply. Yes, I did mean IDE.
Hi Stephen, Motherboard change can require a lot more investment than price of motherboard, like: - bigger power supply as todays processors are using more electricity, - new faster RAM modules to gain something from increased CPU speed, or even to be able to run as older 32 bit machine can have PC 100 RAM that can't be reused for the board in question, - new SATA hard drives, as on single IDE connector you can have 2 devices, and giving up on the optical drive will make impossible to install proprietary software. Using external USB DVD drive is possible, but it cost more than internal one, - external network card as search for linux on Vitesse web page returns nothing, Google query"Vitesse VSC8601" returns questions without answer, at least few that I checked. Taking all it can come out that is cheaper to by new computer, computer without OS or some barebone system, like those advertised on Tiger Direct, than to start upgrade. References: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=733 http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-9746.html http://www.vitesse.com/products/product.php?number=VSC8601 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=332 -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
