RE: Re: Video Server

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Asus A7V - Good?

Hope so! - that's what I just ordered for my new main PC, but only with a
Duron 750 for now... :-( - gotta appease SWMBO a bit & try to keep
costs
down! (I'll overclock the 750 to 950 though....)

I think you're right about the clean install vs. upgrade though, - i
>do<
actually have 1 ME PC in the house, and it is pretty stable... (that was a
clean fresh install) - I had it on 3 other PC's that were upgrades from
98SE, and without exception it turned every one of those machines into a
pile of doo-doo.

- What do you mean about W2K having no support for games? - it includes
DirectX7 out of the box, and there is a DirectX8 upgrade specifically for
W2K as well....

Paul G.


>From: "Kenneth Watt" <kennethwatt@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Video Server
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:23:23 +0100
>
>Me is okay, some problems with my Athlon/Asus A7V combo though! Keep
>getting
>a non-responding MSGVR32 which is a pain in the t*ts but other than
that I
>have no real complaints with ME which, incidentally, I now run on four
>machines, definitely more stable than 98 or SE IMO but you must do a
full
>fresh install to the drive and not upgrade. Win 2K still better but no
>cigar
>and no support for games as such or some other little ditties that make
>life
>easier.
>
>But to the point, I run an Athlon 700 and an Athlon 1100 both perform
>excellently and I have no complaints at all about the processor and I
knock
>the sh1t out of 'em constantly, on thing though - get a 350W power
supply.
>Two 230W supplies so far and counting ;o)
>
>K.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 11 April 2001 19:56
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Video Server
>
>I would echo Stuarts comments - I too am about to start putting
together a
>new PC to be may main workhorse machine, and I will be going AMD Athlon
or
>Duron, because they are considerably cheaper than intel equivalents,
and
>reportedly outperform them as well at the same clock speed. (No
personal
>experience of this, but it is wideley reported). Win2K Pro will be the
>primary OS, - i "may" put a dual-boot with 98SE on there as
well, just in
>case - I always think it's worth having more than 1 OS on a PC - if it
goes
>tits-up.com then you can't as easily boot it up to fix it, or you can't
>just
>reboot to the other OS if you just >have< to get soething done
quickly.
>(which, after all, is always when you discover a non-bootable OS
anyway,
>right?)
>
>Personally, I wouldn't touch ME with a very long shitty stick!
>
>just my £0.02 as always.
>
>Paul G.
>
>
>
> >From: "Stuart Whyte" <stuart@xxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Video Server
> >Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:10:34 -0000
> >
> >Ewen,
> >
> >AMD processors have been FAR out performing Intel for a while. 
They
> >are also cheaper (Athlon 1200 £185).  I personally think that AMD
> >motherboard support is better as well.
> >
> >As far as O/S goes, I use ME and dont have any probs, but I dont
do
> >much video stuff, so not really fair to comment.
> >
> >
> >£0.02 and IMHO
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Stuart
> >
>
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