Pae, I just did that to protect an investment. I bought a Tyan
socket 7 motherboard for a P5-133 with Dimms and Simms, so I could
put existing fast page (non-EDO) Simms in it but upgrade to
SDRAM. But this was to protect an existing investment.
Think it through before you do this for a new investment, though.
I'm not saying it's bad, just be careful.
What you risk is being locked
in as the form factors and other factors multiply in the
next few months. Use the strategy to leverage what you've
got, but be really careful about buying new stuff unless
you're willing to stay with it for a year or two or toss
it pretty soon. Of course I say this as I think about
buying another 64meg of EDO memory <ggg>. Do as I say
not as I do, he says.
I think you're comment about not being able to take SCSI
and sound with you if it's built on the motherboard is
sound. SCSI which? Ultra 3.141592654? (Of course I
swear every day I'm going to SCSI then keep buying IDE,
so WDIK?)
As for NT, it is more stable than 95 but there is
definitely mental ramp-up cost.
You can get what you need from books if you have
any feel at all for it (says the man with
the blue screen of death in his face<G>), or post here; we'll
help you. But don't discount it either. Recovery from
failures takes some knowledge of disk formats, boot sectors,
etc. Not to mention the registry.
Sorry for the rambling, but this is the way people who
have been rebuilding NT systems for 2 1/2 days talk.
Regards,
Spots |
