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<H2><A NAME="s11">11. Conclusion </A></H2>
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<P>If you have some moneny to put into your machine, you'd be well off
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with a Pentium90, ASUS-SP4, which is what I use at the moment. If you
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can afford 32M RAM that would be much better than 16M RAM.
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<P>Real soon now the upcoming standard will be the Triton Chipset with
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support for special SIMMS called EDODRAM, and SRAM. Both will be more
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expensive than PS2-RAM, and at the time of writing (28-June-1995) SRAM is not
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available. While EDO-DRAM is more expensive, this is not because of the
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production costs, they are said to be the same.
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<P>For a highperformance system I would still choose an ASUS-TP4/XE with EDO-DRAM,
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but if you do not need to use it at the moment, I d rather wait some more.
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<P>For Graphic-boards I'd say the best cheap board fitting perfectly on a
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good Multisync-15 like the Samsung SyncMaster 15Gli, is the SPEA V7 Mirage
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P64 with Trio64 Chipset and 2M DRAM. For more sophisticated Display
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like the Iiyama-IDEK 8617A-T I think the PCI Mach64 ATI-GUP-Turbo
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(not the cheaper GUP-Turbo-Windows) would be a
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good choice, with 4M RAM you can have truecolor in higher
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resolutions. It is well supported in the XFree86(tm)-3.1.1, and there
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are commercial X-Servers available of which I'd recommend
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Accelerated/X by Roell, which supports the Mach64 very well and fast.
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<P>For SCSI I'd take the DPT rather than the (much cheaper and very fast)
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NCR53c810 in case you plan to use SCSI-Tapes a lot. The NCR53c810
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driver on Linux does lack disconnect/reconnect support, thus blocking
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the SCSIbus on operations like "mt rewind", "mt fsf" etc. It bears a
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performance penalty on tar-operations - but check out Drews new alpha
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drivers before making a decision, perhaps it does solve all the problems.
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<P>For building servers, the DPT
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would be the controller of choice anyway because of all the nifty
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hardware cache (with elevator sorting on accesses, so cache it is not a silly
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thing even in a Linux enviroment where the OS does the caching) and RAID-Support
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up to raid level 5.
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<P>If you do not want to spend that much money on computer equipment
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(e.g.: you are having a life) you might go for an ASUS-SP3-SiS with
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AMD-DX2/66 or DX4/100. The SPEA V7 Mirage P64 PCI with 2M DRAM would
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be a good choice, since it uses the Trio64 S3 Chip, which is well
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supported by XFree86(tm)-3.1.1, quite cheap to buy and fast, too.
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<P>Another fine card since XFree86(tm)-3.1 is the fast and cheap et4000/w32-PCI-card.
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