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Old 03-17-2004, 01:48 PM   #16
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See my sig. Got most of my stuff from Newegg.
I second Flashingcursor's advice about the C-Media sound chipset.
My Best Data external serial modem is the fastest dialup modem I've ever used.
Epson and HP printers on the parallel port do well.
Use a PS2 keyboard, not USB. The reason is that USB uses a higher interrupt number. You want your keyboard to always have the first interrupt priority in case something goes wrong with another piece of hardware...

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Old 04-03-2004, 02:55 PM   #17
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Thanks for the information tigerflag. It is much appreciated!
 
Old 04-03-2004, 04:04 PM   #18
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if you want a powerhouse pc for cheep, then do look at Nforce (Duall chanel ram baby!), the only problem I ever had with my nforce chipset was getting ALSA to work, and that only took a day or 2 (and I learned SO much) although later I leaned that it would have taken me 10 mins if I had downloaded 'alsaconf'.

the nforce drivers put out by Nvidia do help by giving crappy sound (Which is why I replaced it with alsa) and they got my onboard NIC running. also people used to have problems with AGPgart, but that has been fixed in the kernel for a while, and slackware comes with the correct module compiled by default.

people are right, do stick with an NVIDIA vid card; SOOO much easier to install.

here is a nice biostar M7NCG for $64, it uses M-ATX formfactor (Cheeper cases) and it suports up to the 400mhz fsb, I have a M7NCD (its full ATX cousin) and I highly recomend that line.
and it has an onboard Gforce4.
then select an athlon or duron of your liking ($30-$200)
and 2 sticks of some cheep ram (30$ each)

then a case and PSU and you have your selfe a nice barebone system, add drives and peripherals (ie monitor, keyboard) and you have a nice computer for $400-$1000

EDIT:
I just noticed, without realizing it, everybody here automatically suggested an AMD based system, nobody has made mention of intel so far.

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