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- Subject: I need some advice from the motherboard gurus :-)
- Date: 21 Dec 92 13:11:37 +1030
- Organization: University of South Australia
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- Greetings all!
-
- I have a little question which I would appriciate answered by someone who
- knows what they're on about ...
-
- I have a 486sx/33 board (ISA) and was thinking about upgrading to local bus,
- but am not sure about how difficult this would be. Firstly, I live in
- Australia and no-one locally seems to make a decent LB motherboard. What I was
- thinking about was ordering the board *minus* chips (processor, etc etc) and
- having it shipped from the US. I have heard quite a bit of talk, and ZEOS
- seems to have the best board (comments on this?).
-
- What I would like to know is - What would be the price of getting a VESA LB
- board from the US (price + P&P)? How easy would it be to swap the chipset
- across from my non-LB ISA board to the new VLB/ISA board? What chips wouldn't
- be able to be swapped, and what would the approx cost of these be?
-
- Basically, is what I am considering viable both technically and financially?
- I would probably be able to get someone over here to do the swap, so that
- shouldn't be a problem. Also, what is the cost of VLB video cards like? Well,
- that's about it - all replies via email please!
-
- Thanks in advance,
- Neil.
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