-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-


 CA> If you were a computer salesperson I'd reply "I don't know, how
 CA> many have you got"? :-)

Salespersons, bleck. I know what I want to buy when I walk into a
store.
I once had the ridiculous experience of standing around in a 
computer store trying to get the attention of a salesperson, 3, but 
they were engaged with window shoppers the whole time I was there, 
about a half hour. I _was_ dressed in jeans however I also 
had three grand in my pocket with an intent to purchasel
I left disgusted.

 CA> I need just ONE more than the number of cards I have to install
 CA> in the machine.

 Sounds right.

 CA> Which brings up another valid point. New machines have dinky
 CA> power supplies and server class have much more appropriate
 CA> power supplies IMO.

 The higher end bare bones systems I was speaking of come with 350 -
 400 watt supplies.

 WC> systems I've seen have 5 plus an AGP for video! In addition
 WC> they have optical audio ports, serial ATA, ect.

 CA> That would be my minimum, yes. Before you get cranky, remember,
 CA> I'm paying for mine and you're paying for yours. I can be as
 CA> fussy as I want to be. Nyah!

You can always add a backplane board and increase that number.

 WC> The bare bones systems, about 400 U.S. of which I speak
 WC> have a video slot in addition to the onboard one and
 WC> provision to disable the onboard one in CMOS. Also Tom's
 WC> hardeware site and www.motherboards.org reviews speak of
 WC> disabling onboard sound and video for superior cards, this
 WC> is done in the CMOS. IIRC THIS H.P. allows one to disable
 WC> the onboard video in the CMOS and the sound is a PCI card.
 WC> I've only got one spare slot here though if I used the card
 WC> for DSL I could free up the modem slot for 2 PCI.

 CA> So far, the sound/softsynth combination on my brother's HP has
 CA> far superior MIDI reproduction to anything I can get to work on
 CA> my machine. I wish I had one that sounded as good. Maybe I'll
 CA> find one someday.

 Don't quite know what mines capable of as I hadn't yet hooked up the 
 stereo and the amplified speakers attached are inferior when not 
 powered up... no appropriate wall wart.

 CA> btw: If you've got the HP working again try this music file I
 CA> recently added to my music page.  It's almost hypnotic (soft
 CA> and soothing). ;-)

 It's working, just Win 3.1 instead of 98.
 I had the money last month to buy the large drive just
 wasn't ambulatory enough to walk the 600 yards round trip 
 to Circuit City from the bus stop. 
 Hope to make the trip a week from now.

 CA> http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/ram/watermark.m3u

 CA> (streaming address)

Saved for next week.
 
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