On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Coleman Kane wrote:
> Yeah, but one thing's for sure, they never compare to the normal mobo
> with our choice of components.
Agreed, but for similar functionality, the prices I've seen recently look about
half as much.. Assuming I was student again, I'd have no choice really, and
what I was getting at is that it ought to be supported because those newer
users with less capital will be the people who distribute FreeBSD to the world
in a couple of years time...
(I certainly wouldn't buy one at the moment!)
> Yeah, this is the XCell-2000 motherboard
<snip>
Found the advert I was reading for it again, it does offer unrivalled
functionality at a low price. At least to the newbie hardware purchaser it
probably looks like a great option.. even if it's going to up the TCO.
(Oops I said TCO! =) )
> why would they need to spend the extra money to have a Sound Blaster over a
> generic card, a TNT over some cheap 2D integrated card, a 3Com Etherlink over a
> cheap pcnet net card, or even a good modem?
I must say that the Riva TNT2 Ultra (Maxi Gamer Xentor32) I've got, does make
the odd Windows game a little more interesting, and it's fun to have xlock
-mode morph3d be a fairly ridiculous blur at 1600x1200 at 32bit =)
[It's also quite handy for watching mpeg's or for playing games under windows,
but then I digress..]
Steve
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