new system shaping up

[Brent Harding]

Oh, this applies only to integrated motherboards? I got some kind of extra
video card that's not integrated, as the computer shop had to replace my
under warantee motherboard, because it's built-in sound had obtained an
overtone after awhile, and nothing would fix it. Now I have an sblive that
rocks compared to that, maybe 4 or 8 bit win sound system thing on the
board before.
At 06:45 PM 10/4/00 +1100, you wrote:
>The other problem with the boards with the onboard SIS 8236 and similar
cards;
>if you leave the onboard video enabled you loose 20% of your memory bandwidth
>and the video card eats system ram to use for video ram. Nice in theory
but evil
>in practice. You also need extremely new X servers to run the shared ram
versions
>of the SIS, they're nothing flash. Far better onboard video can be had
with the
>ati Ragepro128 and friends.
>
>Regards, Kerry.
>On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:35:38PM -0500, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>> Couple of thing kinda things:
>> 
>> 1. I have a Smart And Friendly 4X4X24X CD-RW (SCSI), which works well with
>> cdrdao and with cdrecord and the generic SCSI CD-R drivers.
>> 
>> 2. Don't get a Sis (Sys? No, I'm fairly sure it's SiS) chipset video card.
>> I got one (an AGP one), because I didn't need any great shakes for video,
>> and when I tried to install any linux or run stuff, the system seemed to
>> lock up randomly. ... Gene and Kirk may remember my Debian trials in May.
>> ... Anyway, go for a Matrox card--I've seen 8MB video cards for fairly
>> inexpensive prices on the net. or ati. Or s3. ... But stay far away from
>> SiS.
>> 
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