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04-10-2003, 06:56 PM
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Shared components..
Still suck, right?
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04-10-2003, 07:10 PM
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what do u mean ? modem, audio, video and cobos like that ? well they phucking suck. i'll never get anything with combos unless i'm at subway
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04-10-2003, 09:01 PM
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yeah..
video,audio,lan,modem and shit.. it seems its not as sucky as what it used to be.. especially for audio..
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04-10-2003, 09:47 PM
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well i like to be able to change my own stuff and not have conflicts when i do it like on my old amd k6-2 ( i know the shame of amd)
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04-10-2003, 10:02 PM
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if you want to add stuff, you just disable the shared component. .
Amd.. right now I have a Duron 800, and it runs soo smooth.. Anyways, I need a new one, cause my little bro is on a P100.. so I'll give him the 800, and I'll take the XP2000(or whatever processor speed I decide to get)..
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04-13-2003, 10:09 PM
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They aren't horrible. I have a dual AMD board with onboard lan/sound and it works pretty well. I can also disable them and put in separate cards if I feel like it.
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04-13-2003, 11:29 PM
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well se, I'm planning on going with a Asus A7V8X.. with onboard lan+audio..
I need heavy duty audio support (since I work alot with music related stuff), so I'm guessing the audio wont cut it.. but the Lan should be ok, from what I heard.. Now can someone confirme that these shared components wont use cpu processor power or cpu ram?!
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04-14-2003, 08:36 AM
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They will use CPU power. Thats the nature of PCI components. All integrated components will still use the PCI bus.
Its minimal at that. It was a big deal when we only had 166MHz to work with. But the the GHz machines don't flinch. The audio is probably decent for most people. But if you do music & such, you'll want a good card to handle it. The LAN is probably sufficent though.
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04-14-2003, 10:50 AM
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ok.. from what I understand, some integrated components are software based and others are hardware based.. and software based is what grabs cpu ressources.. Not the hardware based stuff..
then again, how do I know whats software/hardware based?!
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04-14-2003, 11:06 AM
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All of your integrated components will use CPU power. The only types of add-ons that typically do not use your existing CPU are generally SCSI cards(high end versions, low end still use system processor), audio cards & some modems. Usually a product will state whether it uses an onboard processor or not. Or whether its hardware based. If it doesn't state either, then its software based.
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04-14-2003, 11:29 AM
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Realtek 6-channel CODEC S/PDIF in/out interface humm, I dont like "codec" too much.. So ok, purely sofware. -LAN- Broadcom® 10/100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps Ethernet controller this looks ok.. this is the board: http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7v8x/specification.htm
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04-14-2003, 11:47 AM
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We use onboard NICS on all of our new machines.. They work fine. Everything else is pretty much what Addict said.
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04-14-2003, 01:04 PM
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The Realtek audio is so-so, regardless of whether its 6 channel or not. It may hold you over until you get a better card though.
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04-14-2003, 01:22 PM
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right now I have an SB live from 2001, they were 4ch..
and it does everything I need it to do.. how does the realtek compare to my current one?
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Its nice because of the 6 channels. Other than that, the SB live is better.
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04-14-2003, 01:35 PM
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ah crap.. I dont need 6ch.. ok anyways, I'll give it a try and if its isnt enough, then I'll get a new Live5.1..
Again, thanks for your advice! I'll be buying in early May, so if anything comes up, that I should know of, please let me know. one week before I buy, I'll probably start a thread with the breakdown of what components I'm getting.. just for criticism..
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04-15-2003, 12:13 AM
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04-15-2003, 09:38 AM
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so it shall be..
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