[thelist] I am looking into the possibility of replacing my

[Kevin]

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> From: "Poojie" <poojie at dccnet.com>
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> Subject: Re: [thelist] I am looking into the possibility of replacing my
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:01:35 -0700
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> <snip>
> The primary feature that you need to look at in any mobo is the
> chipset. The chipset (which is made up of usually two microchips --
> hence the term 'chipset') is going to be the limiting factor in
> everything the motherboard does simply because it defines
> everything the motherboard is capable of.
>
> You tend to hear a lot of bad stuff about VIA and their chipsets,
> but in my experience much of it is unfounded. The problems that due
> arise (such as certain hardware/software only working with Intel
> chipsets) are the fault of the developer, not the chipset.
>
> Anyhoo, I have left a lot of loose ends because if I hadn't stopped
> myself, I would have gone on forever. Literally. If you have any
> more questions, fire away.


If you wouldn't mind then yes I could ask a number of questions?

You mentioned the new ASUS A7V mobo for AMD. It was one of
the first boards I noticed. It looks great and I would spend the extra
$40 dollars just for the piece of mind.

    $40 dollars balanced against endless hours of research, testing, all
           to trouble shoot a problem, Simple does not equate!

I think the thing that really gets me is that the board I currently use has
the Athlon K7V cpu and the memory to match. I need to know that the
board will allow me to transfer my old components onto it so that I don't
have to dump a ton of money into it up front.

Then of course I need to be able to upgrade the CPU without spending
$900 dollars for a part that another board of similar makeup is using.
Only this boards CPU costs $125 dollars for and offers more power.

        850 mhz    - vs. - 1300 mhz

While these issue are the first too popup, What you mention about
the chip set limiting what the board can do causes quite abit of unease.
While I can read thru the documentation of these chip sets and get a
general feel for what other people think of them, I don't have a base of
knowledge that allows me to do a comparison of features, stability, and
performance.

It looks like my question posted earlier about what type of knowledge is
require to make an intelligent decision is directed at the chip set of the
various
mother boards out there.

    Exactly how will this chip set limit what I can do?


I would ask a hundred more questions if I knew what questions to ask, But
it looks like I need to learn more before I can ask more.

Any insight is greatly appreciated

Thank You
Kevin


NOTE: Please advise me if this type of tip is appropriate for thelist. I
wouldn't
            want to over run the resources available.

            The tip is quite long!


<tip>
 From the book:
The Coldfusion Web Application Construction Kit 5.0

Creating and populating data driven tables
    NOTE: It is very important to always keep track of what
                information needs to be repeated. Other wise you
                could spend hours trying to debunk your code!

Example: date driven table

the query:
<CFQUERY NAME="movie" DATASOURCE="OWS">
SELECT      FilmID, MovieTitle, PitchText, AmountBudgeted, Summary,
DateInTheaters
FROM         Films
WHERE       (FilmID = #URL.FilmID#)
</CFQUERY>

the code:
<table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="7" border="1">
    <cfoutput query="movie">
    <tr>
        <td rowspan="4" width="100">
        <img src="../images/f#FilmID#.gif" alt="#MovieTitle#" align="middle"
/>
        </td>
        <th align="right">
        Title:
        </th>
        <td>
        #MovieTitle#
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th align="right">
        Tag line:
        </th>
        <td>
        #PitchText#
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th align="right">
        Released:
        </th>
        <td>
        #DateFormat(DateInTheaters, 'dddd - mmmm d, yyyy')#
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th align="right">
        Budget:
        </th>
        <td>
        #DollarFormat(AmountBudgeted)#
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
    <td colspan=3>
    #Summary#
    </td>
    </tr>
    </cfoutput>
</table>

the example:
http://home.netcom.com/~krr/theList_tips/Orange%20Whip%20Studios%20-%20Movie
%20Details.htm