Re: Time to buy a new computer

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Wade Hampton wrote:

> Jason Pincin wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, definately go with the G400 Max.  It rules.  And the SB Live card
> > rules too (I got the 512).  I think RH 6.2 supports the Live outa the box
> > now.... when I installed 6.1 I had to pull the module down from Creative's
> > site, but it worked like a champ!
> A few months back, I got the 3DfxVodoo3000 and it is great, but 
> you have to get the drivers from 3dfx.  I avoided the live card, but
> I guess now it might be worth considering....

K.

> > I don't know what the hell processors yur talkin about?  CuMine?  Are they
> > celeron's or sumthin?  Whatever they are, they should be fine :)
> Oh, Copper Mine....  

Looks like someone remembered something from chemistry class. :)

> > The Case mfg. I love is colorcase.com.  You have to actually place an
> Sounds interesting -- I'll have to check it out too....

I can't find any of their cases with more than 2 internal 3.5" drive bays.
That really sux.  My current AT case has 5.
 
> > As for IDE... I'm sorry to hear that *laugh*  Nah... as long as you get
> > two drives, attached to seperate controllers, and do yur partitioning
> > right you should be able to get the performance to a decent level.
> Only problem is you fast run into the 4 drive limit (1 20G HD, 1 DVD,
> 1 CD-R/RW, 1 ZIP -- I'm done).

I'll keep my SCSI around.  I still love my Plextor 4x CDROM.  Not sure if
my future CDRW will be SCSI or IDE, but I should be ok.  Not to mention I
I think I might go with that 40GB 7200RPM monster from Maxtor.

> > Sounds like it'll be a rockin system.  Sorry to hear about the *crash*  I
> > hate when that happens.  :(
> Must be a bug, he must have run the HCF instruction (Halt and Catch
> Fire).
> Sorry about the crash.  With good drives, they are fairly rare now.
> (The WORST drives we ever had were some AV SCSI drives, 100% failure!)

Remember Micropolis?  Oh man did those suck.  But yeah, I've been having
problems with my drives for some time now.  I was just hoping to put it
off for as long as I could.

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