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To: Petz who wrote (32609)	5/11/1998 11:17:00 PM
From: Investor A	Respond to of 1572776

John, Anand just posted the links to 10 Super 7 motherboards: anandtech.com Due to inferior architectures of PPro to run DOS/Win95, it is always questionable to move from socket 7 to SLOT 1. However, the 100Mhz bus speed on Super 7 is definitely offering the users noticeable performance gain moving from 66Mhz to 100Mhz bus speed.

To: Petz who wrote (32609)	5/11/1998 11:21:00 PM
From: Robert G. Bianchi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572776

To All: I tried to use the AGP on the FIC VA-503 (not the VA-503+) with a number of AGP cards, first the ATI ALL-IN-WONDER PRO and then with the Hercules Thriller 3D Card both with Windows 95. It was a miserable experience. I ended up installing Windows a half dozen times at least. The ATI driver rendered the Windows System totally useless and even when I tried to unistall it, I couldn't recover. After a lot of frustration, I called the FIC tech support, and they indicated that AGP was fine, but a lot of people had trouble with Windows 95. The problem is with Windows 95 and it should work on Windows 98. I then got Beta 3 of Windows 98 and all is pretty much fine. It actually Plugged and Played fine. The problem I was getting is a conflict between the PCI to PCI Bridge and a number of resources that could not be moved! When I play the tuner, my desktop gets spattered with pixels from the TV image. Over time, the desktop looks a mess! ATI tells you to use the Windows 95 Driver on Windows 98 at your own risk and the Windows 98 Driver doesn't know about my ViewSonic P815's 1600 x 1200 resolution at 85 Hz refresh rate. It looks like Bill Gates is making sure that everyone has to buy Windows 98 A word of caution to anyone looking to be at the cutting edge, you may get a lot of headaches. Anyone know why AMD has been slowly declining lately? I am thinking of getting back into the stock. Bob