-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-

 CA> 1237b2303585
 CA> tech

 CA> Hello Roy -

 CA> --8<--cut

 CA>>> My 450mhz can stream video better than his 800mhz in part
 CA>>> because the 450mhz has a 16meg vid card with it's own
 CA>>> memory onboard.

 RJT>> I wouldn't want it any other way.

 CA>> Nor me. :-)

 RJT> I can see that I'm going to have to be fairly careful in
 RJT> terms of my upgrades from here on out...

 CA> The 'line' at the point PCI slots overcame ISA slots also is
 CA> the point where things began being installed on the motherboard
 CA> and robbing main memory for video rather than having real video
 CA> memory chips installed. :-\

 CA> Hopping over that line doubles costs and is no guarantee of
 CA> anything at all unfortunately. :-\

 CA> As I've said, what we seem to want is what is considered
 CA> "server class hardware".

I've looked over www.pricewatch.com, just an 
example plenty of other sources, and they have
some good bare bones deals on high powered systems.
True most of the motherboards have onboard video 
and sound but they also have provisions for
adding your choice of video card and a goodly number
of open slots on the better motherboards.
 
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