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To: GC who wrote (2424)	3/15/1999 8:34:00 PM
From: RJL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

Hi GC, RE: Motherboard with on-board SCSI. Well, I personally have an AOpen AX6B+ in one of my boxes. It's got a 440BX chipset which will run on a 100Mhz FSB allowing 350Mhz+ PII CPU's to function correctly. A BIOS upgrade will allow a P-III 500 to run on it. It has 3 ISA, 4 PCI, and one AGP slot. Great motherboard...I highly recommend it. Take a look for yourself: aopenusa.com It's not too expensive either. ASUS also has one (as well as about 10 other motherboard manufactures, but they're way over-rated and overpriced..IMHO). "for the 500 chip they want $1335.00 motherboard $480.00 with only 3-PCI slots memory 128 sdram $365.00 new case $125.00-baby tower for a baby motherboard I told the guy. " Holy cow, what currency is that in? Even in Canadian dollars that's way too much. Especially for the RAM and the case. A full-tower would cost you that much CAD, a mini-tower would be more than half of that. I also suggest picking up an AGP video card to take advantage of the slot and free up another PCI slot. I hope this helps, and let me know where you are before you purchase anything that expensive. Regards, Richard

To: GC who wrote (2424)	3/15/1999 9:44:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 110645

GC, The only BX boards I know of that have on-board scsi are the dual-processor boards. Many manufacturers make these. You can search specifically for them on PriceWatch: pricewatch.com Search for cpu/dual-no cpu. The Tyan Thunder seems to be the Cadillac of the bunch, and is a recommended board on Tom's Hardware Guide. It has on-board scsi and 6 (count 'em!) PCI slots. Be advised, though, that NT is the only Windows O/S that supports dual processors. You can find mother-board reviews on many hardware sites. The ones I know of are: Anandtech: anandtech.com Tom's: sysdoc.pair.com BX Boards: bxboards.com Ars Technica: ars-technica.com Motherboard HomeWorld: motherboards.org If you're interested in a discount dual-processor setup, check out: motherboards.org and look for information about dual-Celerons. Regarding memory: Samsung is usually considered to have the best high-end memory, but Micron now has some CAS 2 100MHz memory that does the job and is very cheap: a friend of mine just bought some 128MB sticks for $165 ea. Check PriceWatch. I think prices are comming down because 133MHz memory is around the corner. Cases: I bought an Addtronics full-tower direct from the manufacturer in California for about $160 including shipping and two extra fans. Very nice case, with removable mobo tray and removable HDD cage. If you get the extra fans it becomes very loud. I couldn't even talk on the phone. The fans themselves are quiet -- it's when you mount them against the case that makes them noisy. I ended up just setting them on top of my video card pointed at the mobo. You can't even hear them -- the HDD is louder. Further modifications are needed to bring air into the case, but it's actually fine the way it is for now, as I'm not overclocking or doing anything strenuous. It's really amazing how much noise those fans can generate... You can also get dual or quad vid cards. Some manufacturers are Appian, STB and Matrox. wily