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from: `Steve Wendt`
date: 2004-10-26 22:43:30
subject: Re: Hardware compatibility days are gone???

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:15:54 -0400, enorbet wrote:

>>There were always random discussions regarding 
>>the best memory.  I listened and then used the cheapest thing I could 
>>find.  My experience was that if it plugged in properly it worked.

Sounds like you were really lucky!  :-)

>>She also said my video card only had 32M memory and that is not enough to 
>>even POST on an MSI although it worked on the ECS 755 AMD 64.
>  
>I challenge anyone to convince me that a bios gives a hoot about how 
>much RAM the damn video card sports.

Agreed, I'd call this ignorance on the part of the Fry's employee (which is not at 
all uncommon, unfortunately).

>I know what you mean as I prefer hands-on myself but I have had good 
>results with Newegg.com and FrozenCPU.com.

NewEgg has worked well for me also.


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