Athlon Motherboards

[Joshua]

i may call and get one of those for when i start building my pc

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From: nflug at nflug.org
To: nflug at nflug.org <nflug at nflug.org>
Subject: Re: Athlon Motherboards
Date: 02/08/03 02:46

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> The older GeForce board will not work in an 8x AGP slot. Bob Meyer bought
a new GeForce 8X AGP video card from me last week and he was lucky. See, the
newer video boards will work in the older AGP slots on the older
motherboards but not the other way around. The newer 8X AGP ports have an
extra separator in the slot that your older video card does not have. So you
would need a new video board for the newer motherboards with 8X AGP ports.
> The onboard sound works fantastic with ALSA installed, and this is a
standard ATX motherboard so specifically it has onboard, Sound, GamePort, 2
serial, 1 parallel, 2 USB and PS/2 keyboard and mouse. It has 5 PCI slots
and NO ISA slots. None of the newer boards have ISA slots anymore either.
So, if you have any ISA cards, they would have to be replaced as well. So
really all you would need is a new video board and ethernet card. 10/100 PCI
NIC's are $15.00 and we have the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 64MB 8X AGP w/TV out
video board for $59.00 of the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 64MB 8X AGP DDR w/TV out
video board for $79.00. I am in Williamsville and by appointment only. If
you want, call me tomorrow at 553-8525. Thanks
> On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 21:06, David Mangani wrote:
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>     Thanks for the advice. I have an older geforce 2 board, that I plan to
use at least for now. I also have an almost new 20 gig 7200 rpm hdd I plan
to reuse. As for sound, if the on board sound is good and it is supported,
I'll save the slot for something else. Does the mainboard you mention have
on board usb and or ethernet? Or should I use separate cards for those
functions as Kevin suggested.
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>     Thx again,
>     Dave.
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>     P.S. Where is your store? I'm in Clarence. Is it far for me?
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>         You will probably have a hard time finding a motherboard today
without onboard sound but that's ok, if you install ALSA, they rock!&nbsp;
Or, if you want to reuse your SBLive, you could just disable the onboard
sound in the BIOS.
>         I sell Gigabyte motherboards for AMD cpu's
>         Gigabyte GA-7VA 8xAGP motherboard $109.00
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>         On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 18:14, David Mangani wrote:
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> I'm considering doing a rebuild on my box. I intend to go with AMD
> again. ( using a k6-2 now ) I want something that WILL work good with
> Linux. I don't need every bell and whistle but would like ethernet, USB
> 2.0 would be nice, sound can be there or not. I have a good SB live
> card. Definately don't want on board video. Anyone have a suggestion on
> a good board that won't break the bank. Would also like a newer board
> that supports 333 or even 400mhz ddr. Once I decide on a main board I'll
> see how much CPU I can afford. LOL
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> TIA
> Dave
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> Cyber Source &lt;peter at thecybersource.com&gt;
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