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Technology Stocks : Cyrix 1 / NSM 1 where hardware goes -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Investor A who wrote (209)	12/6/1997 2:27:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 300

Fuchi, If you are upgrading your Novell network, I can share some of my experiences. I upgraded the network at my wife's company. We upped the memory on the server from 16 MB to 128 MB, replaced most of the Ethernet networks with Fast Ethernet and changed the main hub to 3COM SuperStack II 3000 100/10 switch. The resulting performance is like night and day. The server stayed the same (an old Pentium 100), and it is not challenged at all. Unless your server is really underpowered, you will gain more performance upgrading the network hardware, rather than the server. Of course it depends on the network. Just check the CPU utilization. The switch was $2,179. It has 12 ports. So cost per port is only a little over $180 plus some $85 for 3com 905 Fast Ethernet cards (you can get cheaper cards from Taiwanese vendors) Joe

To: Investor A who wrote (209)	12/7/1997 10:33:00 PM
From: steve h	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 300

Fuchi and all, Has anyone tried a Diamond Monster 3D sound card with a cyrix 6x86? any problems? any recommendations? i'm looking to upgrade my "cheapie" sound card and speakers. thanks, steve h

To: Investor A who wrote (209)	12/11/1997 6:26:00 PM
From: steve h	Respond to of 300

Fuchi, could you please comment on my post 214? subject: sound cards. i'm using a 6x86Lpr200, mustang 534f, matrox mystique 4MB, 32MB 50nS Micron memory (2x16mb), and am overclocked to 2x83MHz. Currently using a cheap 16 bit, 32 voice sound card (optisound chip based). It is called a supersound 32-3d and is soundblaster compatible. sound has static and is "choppy" for games. I think the static is due to the cheap card, but thought the "choppyness" could be due to compatability or processing limitations. thanks, steve h

To: Investor A who wrote (209)	12/19/1997 10:35:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 300

Fuchi (off topic, continuing from main thread) I have to check the configuration of the file server. It's an older Micron system, and I don't even know how much it can cache. It was originally set up by a consulting company, but they screwed up so many things that we fired them. I started to do most of the hardware related stuff. We have to complete the the upgrade to switched fast ethernet before I re-focus on the server. With 128MB of memory, even if it is not cached, it is not the bottlneck. The response time for getting data from the server is almost the same as getting it from local disk-cache access. Joe