[plug] wishlist please.

[Ari Finander]

Depends on your budget, really.  If you're going to be doing some
heavy jobs that rely on having a good processor, then go for the
T-Bird.  If money is the biggest concern, a Duron will do just fine
(and given that it has a 200mhz FSB and can make use of 133mhz ram
assuming the mainboard can, you'll be happy).  The Asus mainboards
seem to be the flavour of choice currently, so you may want to look
into their selections for your board.  You can get the video card I
want, the AGP M64 TNT2 32mb one, for only $95 (or you can help me get
it by buying my AGP Diamond Viper550 8mb TNT card for $50 hint hint
*grin*) and that'll do you video wise for a bit as long as #1 isn't a
real 3D gaming fanatic.

Ari

Original message from: Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
>
>I am starting on doing the research as to what to upgrade my present
>destop system with.  This is a K6-400 which acts as the
gateway/server
>for the home network including mail, web, firewall etc plus being my
>desktop machine using kde.  Its currently running Mandrake 7.2. 
>Intensive applications include VMware, StarOffice and audio
processing.
>
>So the questions are Duron or T'bird and what motherboard.  Game
ability
>is probably not important (as long as I can keep #1 son off it!) but
>grunt for audio processing is - some of the 2Gbyte files currently
take
>5-7 hours to process!
>
>The new "bits" will go in my present machine, the old bits go into my
>sons etc., so I am not looking at a whole machine.
>
>BillK
>
>.
>


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