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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jay Fisk who wrote (322)	3/2/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

Definitely target my next upgrade for 100mhz bus, or faster. Every time I swear I'm going to SCSI, I can't resist another IDE drive, though. Just got a Maxtor 8.4 g for $305 (after $30 rebate), 9.5 ms avg access. It's just hard to ante up for SCSI, despite the advantages. Of course this is the last controller slot ... <g>. Also I'm out of internal bays. :( But tough beans, I'll force it in because this is for all my stock charts<gg>. BTW, the PC Power & Cooling mid tower is essentially the same configuration as my ATX midtower case, but it has an internal bay add-on (I read on the web site). From what I can make out it looks like it hangs below the other internal bays in the otherwise empty lower front area, though they don't seem to have a picture. Anybody have any further info on this? I wonder if they'll sell it separately, or if there's any such equivalent thing out there somewhere else.

To: Jay Fisk who wrote (322)	3/2/1998 8:55:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

BX chipset...100MHz bus...(350/100)...benefits From the Intel motherboard forum newsgroups.intel.com >>>From Slyglif Date Sent Sun, 1 Mar 1998 11:51:38 -0700 Subject Re: Re: Selecting a Motherboard Organization Phoenix Flight Software The main benefit will be the increased speed to access memory (50% faster bus to memory). This will allow memory-intensive apps to perform better, and if you use an AGP video card, it will be able to perform better at 2x mode.<<< The above is a response to the following question >>> In article <UHucRYSR9GA.162@newsgroups.intel.com>, harney@brigadoon.com says... Gregory, Due to project deadlines, waiting until mid-april is not out of the question, but will present some problems. Because 384/512 memory is OK for my needs, do you think I would get other significant benefits from the BX chipset. I've seen this chipset mentioned, but do not really understand its benefits for a server application, other than the increased memory. Although I would prefer an Intel MB, I noticed an ASUS, P2L97-DS that seems to have all the features I'm looking for (Dual slots, 512KB cache, 512meg SDRAM, on-board SCSI, ATX form factor. I believe the Supercom P6DLS has the same feature set.<<<