[plug] DFI Motherboards - Sound

[Richard Meyer]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 20:33 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 October 2005 16:31, Paul Mc wrote:
> > Timothy White wrote:
> >> Also, I might as well put it in the same post. If you are looking
> >> at getting a socket 939 board. I will have 2 boards for sale. An
> >> 'A8V Delux' AGP, Via Chipset. And a WinFast NF4UK8AA PCI-E. If your
> >> interested. Contact me
> 
> > I dont want to start a war here,
> 
> If that were really true, you wouldn't have posted. (-:
> 
> > But I was excited (I need a new mobo), until I realised they are
> > both AMD :( 
> 
> I run 100% AMD, with excellent results.
> 
> I'm installing a server at the moment. The cheap ASUS _server_ mobo is 
> capable of running twe PCIe-16 graphics cards (each with two heads) and 
> includes 8-channel sound. Not to mention optical audio I/O, 8 SATA 
> sockets (2 of them external) plus the usual PATA, 2 PS/2, 10 USB2, 2 
> FireWire, parallel, serial, and games ports. Would you like fries with 
> that? If I'd spent another 30% on it, the customer could have enjoyed 
> twin dual-core goodness, but the price of the CPUs themselves is pretty 
> breathtaking -- and oif course you need to buy two. The thing runs 50% 
> faster than a microwave over anyway, so...
> 
> The ThermalTake 430W PSU is also amazing, it spins the fan down as far 
> as stopped if it's not heavily loaded, and has sockets for 9 devices, 
> plus two floppies, two SATA (includes adaptors for 8 more, potentially 
> consuming 4 sockets), two ATX supplements and the main connector.

Nice kit, that.

Of the 7 computers I have in the house, 5 are AMD and 2 are Celerys. I
see no difference in reliability, while price/performance on the AMDs is
way better.

If I was looking for a lappy, though, the Centrino seems to be the way
to go - but then the Sempron looks nice, too .....

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