Final thoughts for my computer upgrade

[Praetorian]

Voodoo was only $20, and since I dont play that many games this will do. I might put my 32mb TNT2 M64 in Linux but some people said I'd get better performance with the Voodoo.

If lan and sound dont work I'll just disable them and go buy the cards for about $40 together. But if i have to do that, whats the point of geting the board.

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Don't know bout the price there, but I do recommend the Epox board, although I have both (ECS aswell K7S5A) I use the onboard lan on that board, works well, don't use the audio on either, have SB live in mine, (epox) SB PCI128 in ECS, only issue I've run into is the occasional mouse lock up with the ECS (everything is still runnin but can't move the mouse, happens after about 4 days uptime.)

Since you are already upgrading the memory to DDR, I'ld say EPOX is the way to go, cheaper then the soyo dragon, more reliable (marginal) then the ECS in my 2 systems, KT266A is also a bit faster in memory performance, which linux will luv.

The video card is excellent (that's what's in the ECS comp. V3 2000 AGP) Voodoo's are still very fast, I could play UT in 1280x1024 before it got even a little choppy.

You runnin this off a floppy? or do you haveanother HDD??

Heatsink and chip should get you under full load about 41c, no load about 36-37c. and that's OC'd to 1.55 Ghz, speaking of which, that's something the ECS can't do well/at all, OC.

You will be impressed by the speed of that chip, I am.

[storm2k]

besides the fact that ac97 is probably the worst sound solution in human existance?

and the fact that you can get a good nic for 15 bucks if you look for it?

[Praetorian]

lol, I'm gonna use the 13gb hard drive out of the system I"m upgrading. Since the Epox is about $50 more I'll have to think about it. I just might go with the ECS and if it turns out to be crap return it and get the Epox.

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

This is an upgrade? I thought it looked more like a replacement

[Praetorian]

Well, yes and no. I'll just be removing the hard drive and cd-rom from my main box. So I guess you can call this a replacement.

[Praetorian]

ECS board seem to work fine. It boots up but I haven't tested the lan or audio and I dont have Linux on it yet. Windows booted (I removed the hdd from another comp) but didn't go over too well since I haven't loaded drivers. Anyway, all seems to be going good right now. I hope it stays what way.

[CMonster]

Let me know how well you get opengl working for the vid card in linux.