Leon Sargent7/24/01 4:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED][wrote]
> Jr.
>
>> There is a thing between slot 2 and 3,4,5 (minitower) called a pci bridge.
>> CPU and Video cards seem to perform best in slots 1 or 2.
>
> Okay.
>
> In the 4400 case the PCI bridge, which comes out of the motherboard, has
> both of the PCI regular slots and the Special PCI slot called a Comm II slot
> which only takes modems, ethernet and I do believe PC-Dos cards and that is
> the closest to the motherboard and would be considered three.
>
> So slot one would be at the top, furtherest from the motherboard and two in
> the middle with Comm II on the bottom. As for CPU accelerators, the 4400 is
> a funny animal.. You install the accelerator in the Rom Cache slot, where
> the Rom cache used to be and it shuts down the OEM processor and replaces it
> with the G3 processor running everything through the Rom Cache.
>
> I currently have my ATI video card in slot 2 and my firewire/usb card in one
> with ethernet in my Comm slot II.
>
>
> Lee
Thanks for setting me straight. pm4400 and starmax are not as identical as i
was lead to believe and the starmax cpu upgrade goes into the L2 cache slot.
jr
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