Re: Matrox G450 and where to buy a machine locally

["Nate Reindl" <r3indlnr@home.com>]

Charlie Brune said:
> #1
> Does anyone have any experience with the Matrox G450 (16MB, DDR) video
card
> under RedHat 7.1?  I'm getting a new machine and would like to purchase
this
> card with it.  However, the HCL ("Hardware Compatibility List") on
RedHat's site
> only lists Matrox cards up to the G400.

As far as I know, dual-head configurations are a b*tch to set up. I've only
seen a few people do it successfully. YMMV with a Matrox card, though.

> At one of the places in STL they'll sell me:
> -- AMD Athlon Thunder Bird 900
> -- Microstar MS-6195 motherboard

Bah. Get an ASUS mobo or something. I've heard nasty complaints about
Microstar mobos -- methinks they're like Microsoft's software or something
:-)

> -- 256 MB DDR RAM

512MB PC-133 DIMM for $55 (so says Pricewatch as of today)

> -- 16MB Matrox G450 DDR, Dual Head video card
> -- Maxtor 60 GB 7200RPM/ATA100 Hard Drive

I gots one of those!

> -- Sony CDRW 12*8*32

Something other than Sony. You'll save an arm-and-a-leg in the long run.

> -- Sony 52x IDE CD ROM

Splurge! Get a DVD!

> -- Sound Blaster 128
> -- Full tower 300W Case
> -- keyboard, Optical mouse, floppy, Windows Me
> -- (No monitor)
> For around $1,200 -- including assembly and tax.

I think you might want to go with a faster processor while you're at it.
1GHz-1.3GHz is a recommendation :-)
Just my two cents worth.
Oh, as for getting and building this beast, you could get some of the parts
from AC Computers on East First Street in O'Fallon.
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Nate Reindl
http://ram.silug.org/
r3indlnr@home.com


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