Athlon Motherboards
Joshua
joshua at navyjosh.us
Fri Aug 1 19:20:29 EDT 2003
Nice
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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 03:13
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> Sounds good, 1 year parts and labor on individual sales, on total system
sales, 3 year parts AND labor warrany!
> On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 18:51, Joshua wrote:
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> i may call and get one of those for when i start building my pc
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> --------- Original Message --------
> 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
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> 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,
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> 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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