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To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
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Subject: Re: Any Opinions on this PC spec ?
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Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> 
> - ASUS A7V Socket A motherboard
>  - Amd Duron 700Mhz
>  - 256MB SDRAM 133Mhz
>  - SIS 8Mb AGP Video card
>  - Maxtor DiamondMAX 20.4Gb
>  U-DMA100 5400rpm
> ~
> - Could buy a 7200 rpm disk (SCSI is out of the question)
> - A better video card ? (I know nothing about video cards !)
> 
> Will also need a DVD player, any recommendations ?

 I've had many problems with the SIS card and XFree 3.3.6,
I don't know much about Xfree 4.0.1 but I think you would
better go with a low end ATI card, any xpert<something>
will do the job.
 Moreover an ATI card may help you in the DVD decoding
process...

Roman.


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