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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gary Ng who wrote (35386)	8/1/1998 12:30:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575191

Gary, Call these guys and you can get a Super 7 Biostar mobo with an Ali Alladin V chipset for $75.http://www.msi-online.com/cgi-bin/rbox/web_store.cgi As far as the upgrade path I can't agrue with what you said except that when some folks spend a lot of money on a computer (most people consider a computer an expensive item) they like to think they can upgrade it. At least get one CPU upgrade. If one buys an LX based mobo (say a P-II-233-266) and later want to plug in a 350 or 400 Pentium II it's really a "no go" because the 350 and 400 are "clock locked" at multipliers of 3.5 and 4.0...based you getting the the BX chipset and running at 100MHz bus. Since the LX/EX chipset doesn't support 100MHzBus speeds, you're stuck. BTW, I here the new ABIT BH6 mobo offers a way to unlock Intels "clock lock"...but that's unverified as yet. For those looking to enter the P-II/Celeron world at the lower end some will think it's well worth spending the extra 30 bucks or so and getting a BX motherboard. Especially with the Celeron which overclocks well because it's L2 cacheless. After all this is what Intel plans on you doing. <G> Jim

To: Gary Ng who wrote (35386)	8/1/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: Majic-	Respond to of 1575191

Other parts wich are "time-proof".. Hmm...I have used my cd-rom for over a year now...panasonic 24x. Still one of the most stabile and reliable cd players around, and with excelent performance. Carefull selection of parts increases the time they can be used with good performance with games and apps. The day the K6 200 was available, I bought it. (over $500;). It was capable of 261,5 MHz STABILE, on Abit Vx motherboard. Really amazing.. Funny to see that 2 months later Amd k6 200 could hardly be clocked to 225....Probably the (as everyone knows) demand asked for more cpu's in shorter time, and thus they dropped their high margins for cpu's concerning overclocking. Or it was examplary.. anyhow that 261,5 MHz k6 would have been more than adequate nowadays, combined with a voodoo or riva 128. One of my harddisks, an IBM 2,1 Gb aquarius, is still MORE than fast enough, it has better acces time than my 6,4 Gb Wd. At the time i bought it, the k6 was unknown, and "intel was better". At the time i bought the IBM hdd, "western digital was more stabile". And still, they would fit fine in windows 98 with 3d games, and general apps without any problems... Nevertheless i agree with you that things as Memory and motherboard become ancient quite a bit faster than other parts in a pc. Greetz, Michael da Kota.