Digging up an old post:
I'm trying to use my old A7N8X deluxe with the 3com gigabit controller for a windows home server.
Everything works great. However, it reports that the NIC is a 10/100 fast ethernet controller, NOT gigabit. It will only connect to my switch at 100Mbs, but works...
Excellent information and exactly what I was looking for; the low upfront with the good upgrade path. I think I'll go with the AMD setup because I do very little video encoding, I can start it and walk away anyway, and I'll probably be happier with the video solution.
Thank you very much.
I know the core2duo is where it's at for the time being (I know Phenom II and i7 trounce all the older stuff, but they also cost about 4x as much). So how much difference is there in the Pentium Dual Core architecture from the Core2Duo?
Intel MOBO's start at 40 bucks. Core2duo's start at 120. That's 160. I think the total system might really trail the AMD system with that G31 integrated graphics solution.
I have an EEE pc 1000h, and although I love it for word processing and surfing, I can tell that it lacks some oomph when I try to do things like video encoding on it and some other processor intensive stuff I've tried on it.
Plus, I like full size cases for my desktops and have a spare case...
I thought about that later. Of course for 100 dollar mobo, you could do a lower end mobo without graphics and get an add-on. I think I'd rather just stick to integrated to avoid any issues.
I would consider overclocking, but if I did, it'd just be a very safe OC on the stock HSF.
I'm going to build a new PC for my wife to use on the standard internet/word/excel stuff so that I can relegate her current PC to windows home server duty. On this PC, I will also occasionally encode some DVD's for use on my iPhone.
I'm setting a 150 budget for the motherboard and processor...
How in the world do I flash the bios on this motherboard? It has the raid bios, and I really want the standard base bios so that I can use the two SATA ports for two devices.
I can't seem to get anything from silicon image or from Asus.
Here's the relevant Silicon Image Link...
has anyone seen a driver for this mini pci wireless card? I can't find one on broadcom or anywhere else. I really need this thing if someone can point me in the right direction.
Yes I looked in the FAQ, but I can't find the name of that file. I'm having some trouble installing from a backup I made, and I had heard that you have to make sure that one file in particular copied correctly on the backup of a winXp pro instal cd. What is that file?
thanks for all the replies. We can't buy a server. We have four old machines going back as their lease expires at the end of the month. We are only allowed to replace pc's going back on lease at this time in my company. A server is out of the question. I was able to buy the pc's with dual...
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