HELP. Dead in the water.

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Peter Huebner <> wrote:
> In article <>,
> says...
> >
> > Abit very much still worth having. A lot depends how much you want to spend
> > and how far you want to overclock, but the AB9 QuadGT is arguably the best
> > performing 965 based design on the planet. The IP35 Pro is better than the
> > QuadGT in some ways, worse in others. On balance little to choose between
> > them. The AW9D series are established and stable.
> >
> > The forthcoming IX38-Max and IX38-QuadGT should be killer, the same board
> > but one with DDR3 and the other with DDR2 sockets.
>
> Depends on what you want in features, really. I'm currently also looking at
> upgrading my NF7S to some thing a little .... gruntier. It's my 3rd generation
> of Abit boards. But I think I will abandon Abit this time around. I want a
> board with _2_ PATA channels. Which precludes the 965 chipset and leads me to
> the NVidia650i.
> I also want a serial port at the back of my box, thank you very much, since I
> don't want to throw away a lot of good expensive hardware; be it UPS, be it
> external dialup modem for emergencies or testing ...

I have an external modem and a UPS (both of which use serial) to hook up
to a M2N-E SLi (which has one serial port). My previous motherboard had
two serial ports. I have a USB-serial converter, but it does something
which causes the UPS to power off whenever Linux inits the USB ports
during the boot sequence. This is obviously unacceptable. So I
switched them -- modem on the USB-serial thingy, UPS on the real serial
port. Works fine that way.

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"Richard Hopkins" <> wrote in message
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> "Jerry Polyak" wrote in message...
>> Dang. Sounds like you got abandoned all around.
>
> Much of the activity seems to have transferred over to the Abit USA web
> forum. Must be all those nice colours, and the ability to edit your posts!
> :-D
>
>> Is Abit still worth having, or should I look elsewhere?
>
> Abit very much still worth having. A lot depends how much you want to
> spend and how far you want to overclock, but the AB9 QuadGT is arguably
> the best performing 965 based design on the planet. The IP35 Pro is better
> than the QuadGT in some ways, worse in others. On balance little to choose
> between them. The AW9D series are established and stable.
>
> The forthcoming IX38-Max and IX38-QuadGT should be killer, the same board
> but one with DDR3 and the other with DDR2 sockets.
>
> Beyond that, if you want a low cost/MATX/media center/etc rig, plenty of
> options beneath the above in the ranges.
>
> E6600 is an excellent choice if you want good all-round performance
> without having to screw the last kilohertz out of everything. If you want
> to overclock for the sheer hell of it, E6320/6420 will give you that
> feeling of achievement.
>
> Beyond that, what you wanna know?! :-D
>
>
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Hey Richard,

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, it's a sorry state of affairs for UseNet these
days. That's too bad.

At this point I decided not to pursue an upgrade. I swapped out what parts
I could from a couple of old systems and put together a decent enough Linux
box. I use it mostly for internet and some office work, so it's plenty
adequate. I think I will save up my pennies and get a Mac eventually. Yes,
I am trying to become Windoze free.