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Hello,

We'll be building a new news server here rather soon, and I was wondering
if anyone in on this discussion has any preferences in motherboards and
dealers...  Our usual supplier is having some trouble coming up with a
recommendation on a RAM-packed motherboard...

Thanks,

Charles

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Michael Beckmann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Maybe not, at today's RAM prices.  Under $1000 for 128MB RAM?  There's
> > no excuse any longer not to fill these machines up to capacity.
>
> Right, but I didn't buy the machine. My predecessor put 4 x 16 MB in it,
> so the SIMM slots were full. I wouldn't have bought a P120 either.
> However, I will upgrade the newsserver to 160 MB EDO RAM this week (it has
> 6 SIMM slots, now that I gave it a decent mainboard)...
>
> Michael
>