[vox-tech] Questions about building my own box

[Ryan]

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Hey now, chill out. It's entirely like that he did not know AMD made CPUs=
=2E

You don't need to flame his for using outlook express (although it does=20
suck), perhaps he is unable to get online under linux for some reason.

Also, it's quite rude to accuse people of spam, if it was a spam attempt=20
there likely would have been some mention of a 'great deal' or 'sale'

On Wednesday, January 16 2002 03:34 pm, Takashi Ishihara wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:17:19PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote:
> > I'm thinking about building a new box, unfortunately I don't know
> > anything about hardware
>
> How unreasonable ppl are these days.
> Kids say the same thing. The difference btwn kids and this guy is
> kids don't know the fact that they are idiot, and this guy at least kno=
w
> that he does not know anything.
>
> And this guy is using wintel + outlook.
> For this kind of person, the only convinsing factors are
> 1. bigger is better.
> 2. faster is better.
> Go to fry's or compusa or wherever and ask the sales person.
> They tell you the same.
>
> > I'm using www.spartantech.com (because they're out where I live), my
> > first
>
> Does this line implies that you expect ppl on the mailing list to visit
> aforementioned uri, browse their products, and configure the system for
> you? Or was he hired by that company, and send this kind of ads to the
> mailing lists?
>
> > choice it the chip:
>
> Sure you should stick w/ wintel + rambus.
>
> > I have to choose:
> > socket 423 vs 478
>
> Bigger is better. Naturally the answer would be 478.
>
> > bus speed 256 vs 512
>
> Wider is better. Naturally the answer would be 512.
>
> > chip speed - I know what this is.
>
> Make sure to get the fastest one.
>
> > Is the 423 an older style than the 478? the 478 is less expensive, is
> > that good?
> > bus speed, how will that impact the system, is it worth the price? It
> > seems I have have to buy the fastest chip in order to get the bigger =
bus
> > (maybe it just doesn't make sense with a slower chip?)
>
> Newer ones are a bit more expensive in general, but you should get new
> stuffs. Get the latest ones. They're faster and better.
>
> > Jay
>
> Hi Jay,
> so you're going to install xp on it, aren't you?
>
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