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Re: Frog
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Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:18:10 GMT
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On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 00:42:05 GMT, "Selçuk <teyyareci>"
<sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote:
> Jasper Janssen wrote:
> It's my far future dream, too. Overclocking what I have on top of my Asus
> P5AB(1) board is the only way to go for now.
Asus Rocks. Period. No doubt about it.
<other stuff taken to email>
> (1) I heard many things about Abit, but I have a very nice background with Asus,
> and thinking about stick with it. During the 486-586 period, I've generally used
> Gigabyte, and it was also a very nice one, with sturdy and ahead of time design,
> although not having as much bells and whistles like Asus. I have also a Asus
> Riva 128ZX AGP display adapter, and like it much (although the evil designers
> introduced TNT just about two months after the introduction of ZX &%#$@#@#)
Yeah... I started with a dx2/66 clone something or other, stayed with
that for 3 years, and decided it was time for something new. So I got
myself an Asus TX-97, (335 guilders) and a P-166 MMX (300 guilders) to
go with it. And some other stuff, too, but that's not relevant :).
After ~6 months, IIRC, I'd decided I wanted a G200 graphics card, to
go with the Iiyama Visionmaster Pro 17 I acquired cheaply in between.
Of course, G200 only comes in AGP. Guess what slot TX-97 doesn't
offer? No points for that one. So, I changed to a new motherboard.
Something sucky with an "AGPPro" chipset. Right now, I'm having major
problems with this damn thing. 2 ISA, 3 PCI, 1 AGP, ok? Now, the PCI
nearest the AGP uses the same interrupt. 1 down, two to go. Another of
the PCI slots appears to be just simply broken. Leaving me with _one_
working PCI slot, to put my PCI ethernet card _and_ my SCSI card in.
That means that, for most of the time, I have connectivity, and if I
want to burn CDs, I can't use the network. Aaaaargggghhh!!!!
As far as Asus goes, I'd use them for motherboards, if they were for
not-to-be-overclocked systems. For overclocking, however, Abit
motherboards appear to be slightly better suited than Asus, at least
according to http://www.tomshardware.com/ . As graphics card
manufacturers, however, I have far less trust in them. I'd rather have
a Diamond/Matrox card than an Asus, I think. but that's a subjective
opinion. :)
Jasper
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| (...) So, here is my story then. I started with a 386SX16 in 1992, with 1M of ram, 40M of hdd (Seagate ST157A, with an amzing(!) 500+ K/sec. of data transfer rate), a 512K Oak 067 vga card, a mono vga monitor, other regular stuff plus a 5.25 fdd (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) It's my far future dream, too. Overclocking what I have on top of my Asus P5AB(1) board is the only way to go for now. (...) Really?..I would be greatly appreciated...:-) What about a "payment" with my readily available first two CD's of Lego (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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