[plug] Building new box. Best bang /$ ?

[Kim Covil]

On Fri, 2001-10-12 at 14:45, Mike Holland wrote:
>   Any other factors than performance in comparing the all-in-one mothers?
> Reliability? Linx issues? Overclocking facilities?
The thing to check with the all-in-one motherboards is how easy it is to
turn off various onboard features... cos if the on-board video dies and
you can't turn it off then you need a whole new motherboard... whereas
if you can turn it off a new video card becomes a possibility... (and
even if it doesn't die... but you want a better video card)

similar issues with onboard network and onboard sound... can you stop
them claiming IRQs and IO addresses if they suddenly stop working and
you need to plug a replacement in...

Cheers

Kim
 
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