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To: d e conway who wrote (41330)	11/12/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571686

Dan, I did the same thing you did a couple weeks ago, motherboard brain surgery. My old motherboard crapped out for some reason. I took the opportunity to pick up some PC100 so now I have 64mb PC100 plus 32mb of old Megatrends SDRAM which (amazingly!) runs at 112 MHz bus speed (although not reliably at CAS 2). It's a little faster, although I really think the limiting factor is my hard drive for almost everything (I have a WDC UDMA drive). The one clear benefit that I see is in games, where the new CPU/mobo ROCK--of course, I also needed a new graphics card to make use of the 3dNow! power. Got a cable modem last week which IMHO is the best use anyone can put their personal IT money to these days. Kevin

To: d e conway who wrote (41330)	11/12/1998 2:59:00 PM
From: Scot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571686

Dan, Check out this link for some comparisons: anandtech.com -Scot

To: d e conway who wrote (41330)	11/12/1998 3:11:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571686

Dan, <Huh...I won't notice the difference ??> First, as Albert said one time, "all computers wait with the same speed". Therefore, to notice the difference, you need to run something on your computer. As far as impressions of how "speedy" a compter is, the most important thing is the video card with good hardware acceleration for Windows paint functions, plus properly installed and configured driver for it. The second thing is your hard drive, the way how it is partitioned and defragmented. Some folks use drive compression and total the whole Windows performance to nil. Your mileage can vary. Regards, - Ali