Re: [Sheflug] IDE Cards

[meltie <lists [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 17 March 2004 09:13, Chris Johnson wrote:
> > When I was last specc'ing my last PC IDE cards were easy to
> > find - Maplins,
> > £25. Nowadays they seem to be bl**dy hard to find - I can't find any!
> >
> > Does anyone know of anywhere that'll still sell a cheap PCI IDE card?
>
> Alex
>
> I may be wrong but you might be better off getting a new motherboard.  A
> quick look on Ebuyer (this is not a recommendation though, not that I've
> had bad service from them though either) shows motherboards (socket A)
> starting at £17 for a:
> "Socket A and FSB266/DDR266 Motherboard M811LU is the most advance and
> unique module from PCCHIPS production. It supports Socket A for Athlon
> XP/Duron CPU, 266MHz FSB, DDR 266 and AGP4X slot to deliver the best
> price/performance."
>
> 27 people have reviewed it and it comes out well.

Ah, but i'm happy with the performance level of this board and don't want 
to have to buy ~768Mb of new ram, expecially at todays prices!

alex/melt

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