Tue Nov 27 23:16:30 2001
Wed Nov 28 00:05:12 2001
IRQ, Interrupt Request.
DMA allows disks to be accessed without the direct control of the CPU ( I believe, It's been awhile ) DMA allows for better disk/system performance.
An interrupt request is a list of numbers you can see in the device manager in windows. These numbers have to do with arbitrating priority on the various busses (PCI, Greyhound, etc)
someone correct me if I'm full of shite, as it's been a looooooooooooooong time.
Wed Nov 28 01:39:25 2001
M.
Wed Nov 28 01:41:18 2001
Don't sweat it, until you need to know, then ask the geeks.
Wed Nov 28 02:06:28 2001
Wed Nov 28 04:25:22 2001
Wed Nov 28 04:33:08 2001
Normally this is fine, but for now AMD makes the highest performance PC microprocessors around. This may or may not change with the evolution of the P7 uarch. and the eventual release of K8 (Hammer).
(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 8:33 pm on Nov. 27, 2001)
Wed Nov 28 04:34:42 2001
Wed Nov 28 04:35:06 2001
Wed Nov 28 04:36:57 2001
You can get out of this by sticking with Intel chipsets, but this means you will be limited to Intel processors.
you seem to have ignored the powerhouse via c3! surely you will correct this slight ;)
Wed Nov 28 04:41:21 2001
you seem to have ignored the powerhouse via c3! surely you will correct this slight
Oh yes, the almighty C3 :rolleyes: :oyvey: :rolleyes:. We musn't forget it.
Please. The only reason to use a C3 is if you're setting up a fileserver or something you don't want to hear; and even then an underclocked Celeron with a heatsink will do fine. Anything else and it's fucking useless because it's performance isn't worth the stained toilet paper it's fabbed on.
(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 8:42 pm on Nov. 27, 2001)
Wed Nov 28 14:49:46 2001
It doesnt need any cooler at all.
Wed Nov 28 17:28:41 2001
HOLY SHIT THIS BRINGS BACK MEMORIES!!!!!!!
Macs are TONS EASIER TO SET UP!!!!!
off course PC's are finally getting better with the hardware stuff, but macs are still better at it then PC in my experience. keep in mind that the margin is very slim however, enough that the pc is looking more and more a viable choice for my future home pc.
unless of course the G5 comes out and rapes the x86 offerings!
muhahahahahahahaha!!!
Wed Nov 28 17:30:49 2001
You couldn't share resources unlike PCI.
Wed Nov 28 17:56:32 2001
Heh! off course the stupid shit was when you moved a PCI card to another PCI slot in the same computer and then upon reboot windows tells you that you have new hardware.
ITS THE SAME FUCKING HARDWARE BUT WITH A DIFFERENT ADDRESS!!!!
So off course, re-install the software. Restart.
Actually my worse experiences were with Sound Blaster cards. Man did I hate those cards. Such a fucking bitch.
I found it ironical that the other sound cards worked better via sound blaster compatible drivers then the SB cards themselves did.
ha ha ha!!!!
The best sound cards at the time were the Ultrasound cards from Gravis. My last PC sound card was a Ultrasound Gravix Max with 8megs of memory... man i was cruising the future while fucktard lemmings were being raped up the ass from Creative.
hence also why i hate the lemming mentality. Creative got to big and rich for the worse of the audio industry. Especially in terms of MIDI.
Man i hated FM synthesis. Thats why i got the Ultrasound cards with the wavetables that were on the harddrive which were then uploaded to the onboard memory. 512k for the original ultrasound card (IIRC). Wavetable KICKED ASS!!! playing games were a completely different experience.
Even when Wavetables become more mainstream it took the rest of the audio industry, along with creative to even come close to the quality that i had with my Gravis cards.
Then again the Gravis cards were expensive.
Thats why i feel sorry when mac users were happy that they were finally getting the Sound Blaster, when they have no idea that the SB is a crappy card.