XP or 64?

[SoDNighthawk]

Has anyone seen my ISA Slots I know I left them around here some place.......Let me see back when, when we had them things called ISA slots we used to run 2 phone modems at the same time in those ISA slots on old Intel rigs and I have to tell you if you ran 2 modems in shotgun (sideXside) in those old ISA slots we nearly had what are DSL speeds today.

That was before all the bandwidth locks came into play and your connection was open to all you could eat or your P.C could handle.

In the olden days those old ISA slots kicked some holy ass. Now I am stuck with 2 crumby ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboards with built in RJ45 1GHz 3-Com LAN and a separate RJ45 Nvidia LAN.

Ya I say we go back to the old days when things worked faster because we did not know any better 😉

Barton 3200+ 400MHz
A7N8X Deluxe
Liquid
2x512 Crucial DDR 400 PC3200
GeForce FX5900
Two Maxtor 40Gig 8MB cach 7200rpm
SONY RW 52x/24x/52x
SONY DVD 16x/40x

 

[Zoron]

The reason most ISA modems were faster / better was the fact that they had a hardware COM port built in. Most PCI modems rely on the CPU to emulate a COM port... obviously eating up CPU cycles in the process. It is possible, though to get PCI hardware modems. If you're on 56K and even if you have a 3.0GHz machine, I think they're still worth the extra money you'll pay for one... especially if you play online games with your 56K connection.

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