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EndobioticChaos · June 18th, 2002, 06:58 PM

Well, just a bit of info about that motherboard. From what I've been hearing about users concerning stability, it's kind of a hit-or-miss deal. Most users have good experiences with it. If it works right from the start, it'll generally keep working great, but some of them are just plain flakey. Other than that, Newegg says it's got an onboard nic, so you wouldn't need yours... which is good, because it does not have an ISA slot, so perhaps you could sell your modem and nic for enough $$ to buy a PCI modem.

Also, I doubt your graphics card would be as much of a bottle-neck in this case as the RAM - I'm assuming you're planning to use the RAM you've already got, which is likely just PC66 or PC100. If I'm correct, I'd suggest if you can at all afford it to buy 256MB of PC2100 DDR, even if it has to be cheap stuff rather than Crucial. Even with the faster RAM, your system would be borderline to run Wolf the way it
"was meant to be."

But regardless, that'll definitely be a huge performance increase over what you've got now, and that's a great price on that stuff. I think you'd be fairly well pleased with it.

June 18th, 2002, 06:58 PM	#3 (permalink)
EndobioticChaos Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,235	Well, just a bit of info about that motherboard. From what I've been hearing about users concerning stability, it's kind of a hit-or-miss deal. Most users have good experiences with it. If it works right from the start, it'll generally keep working great, but some of them are just plain flakey. Other than that, Newegg says it's got an onboard nic, so you wouldn't need yours... which is good, because it does not have an ISA slot, so perhaps you could sell your modem and nic for enough $$ to buy a PCI modem. Also, I doubt your graphics card would be as much of a bottle-neck in this case as the RAM - I'm assuming you're planning to use the RAM you've already got, which is likely just PC66 or PC100. If I'm correct, I'd suggest if you can at all afford it to buy 256MB of PC2100 DDR, even if it has to be cheap stuff rather than Crucial. Even with the faster RAM, your system would be borderline to run Wolf the way it "was meant to be." But regardless, that'll definitely be a huge performance increase over what you've got now, and that's a great price on that stuff. I think you'd be fairly well pleased with it.