Me myself & him
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Motherboard shopping
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flatrockrecordin
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Original Equipment Manufacturer---Local Access Network
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Emeric
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OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer.
As it relates to computer equipment - It may mean you get the harddrive, soundcard, whatever etc.. in a static bag instead of a big shiny shrink-wrapped landfill abusing retail box.
LAN: Local Area Network. Some motherboards have a NIC - Network interface Card. Not a big deal, but generally an indication of a cheaper 'all in one' motherboard.
As it relates to computer equipment - It may mean you get the harddrive, soundcard, whatever etc.. in a static bag instead of a big shiny shrink-wrapped landfill abusing retail box.
LAN: Local Area Network. Some motherboards have a NIC - Network interface Card. Not a big deal, but generally an indication of a cheaper 'all in one' motherboard.
WATYF
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Au Contraire my friend...Emeric said:
There is a large movement towards "all in one" methods of mobo production these days,... and onboard LAN (and RAID and Sound etc. etc.) is a very common thing among the best of the MB's that are coming out. (Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and the rest of the big boys) Although.. I would agree that on-board video still sucks.. (even if it is an nForce
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Me myself & him
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I'm looking at the A7M266 from ASUS, someone on the DUC told me not to get anything OEM, but most of the lowest priced ones seem to be.
Lame Thrower
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OEM stuff is almost always cheaper than the consumer version.
What you should buy depends on how confident you are that you can figure it out with no documentation.
What you should buy depends on how confident you are that you can figure it out with no documentation.
WATYF
...happier than you.
OEM is fine on most items...
the times you want to avoid OEM is with certain video cards and with items where you would need any kind of warranty or instructions. The OEM items are the same exact item, except they are delivered direct to the system builders withoat all the fancy packaging and what not...
BUT...
in some instances there have been cases where OEM has been made differently.. for example.. with the Radeon 8500, they put out an OEM version of the card and duped a whole lot of people into buying it thinking they were getting the same thing.. it ends up it was clocked 25MHZ lower (or something like that). But those instaces are few and far between. You just have to know what you're getting.
WATYF
the times you want to avoid OEM is with certain video cards and with items where you would need any kind of warranty or instructions. The OEM items are the same exact item, except they are delivered direct to the system builders withoat all the fancy packaging and what not...
BUT...
in some instances there have been cases where OEM has been made differently.. for example.. with the Radeon 8500, they put out an OEM version of the card and duped a whole lot of people into buying it thinking they were getting the same thing.. it ends up it was clocked 25MHZ lower (or something like that). But those instaces are few and far between. You just have to know what you're getting.
WATYF
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Emeric
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WATYF said:Au Contraire my friend...
There is a large movement towards "all in one" methods of mobo production these days,... and onboard LAN (and RAID and Sound etc. etc.) is a very common thing among the best of the MB's that are coming out. (Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and the rest of the big boys) Although.. I would agree that on-board video still sucks.. (even if it is an nForce
WATYF
Whatever you want to think, friend.
It is a characteristic that cannot be ignored, and very easily proven.
This 'movement' has been going on for 4 years(and forever to).
Just stating it as a general observation. Take a grain of salt.
I didnt' mean to imply that motherboards with NIC, audio etc are necessarily bad - but that it can be an indicator of a cheap board, to those that don't know the diff.
WATYF
...happier than you.
lol.. well it's not what I "think"..Emeric said:
It's what's happening.. you may have misunderstood what I was saying, though...There was a time when "integrated mobo" automatically equaled "crap". But that time is over.. now, quality mobos are coming oat with integrated periferals like Promise RAID and Realtek LAN and 6 channel sound, etc. etc. and they are coming from top-name mfg's like Asus et al...
The only reason I commented was cause I didn't want to MM&H to get the idea that if he saw a mobo with integrated LAN that it must be a "cheap" mobo.. that's all...
Peace, man..
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Emeric
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I edited my above post while you were typing, maybe that is clearer.
It is all about application.
It is all about application.
James Argo
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What's OEM ? and LAN ?
...Then what is WATYF ?
...Then what is WATYF ?
Me myself & him
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Great, what's NIC?
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Emeric
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Emeric said:
Same thing as LAN in the context of this thread. A network card, just a device to allow one computer to connect to others via some wire.
James Argo
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Emeric said:
That's it... you don't have to add network card (ethernet or LAN card) anymore to conect to Local area network. The Mobo provide it... ust plug the LAN cable...
James Argo
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... Emeric always push the submit button faster then me...
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christiaan
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The integration of more and more components on motherboards will continue. I'm sure. It's a trend that has been going on since the early years of PC's.
When I bought my Pentium 90 MHz PC in 1995, it wasn't common to have a LAN at home. In fact: I still lived with my parents back then and it was the only decent PC in the house.
Nowadays it is common practise to hook your PC on to the internet.
My 486 gateway/firewall doesn't have onboard IDE controllers. The controllers are on a separate ISA card.
Earlier generations of CPU's didn't have an integrated co-processor. Those motherboards had an extra socket to push a co-processor in if you needed the extra power. etc. etc..
Putting LAN onboard was a logical step in the evolution. Firewire is next.
When I bought my Pentium 90 MHz PC in 1995, it wasn't common to have a LAN at home. In fact: I still lived with my parents back then and it was the only decent PC in the house.
Nowadays it is common practise to hook your PC on to the internet.
My 486 gateway/firewall doesn't have onboard IDE controllers. The controllers are on a separate ISA card.
Earlier generations of CPU's didn't have an integrated co-processor. Those motherboards had an extra socket to push a co-processor in if you needed the extra power. etc. etc..
Putting LAN onboard was a logical step in the evolution. Firewire is next.
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Sangram
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Some of the new mobos for this year will have two NICs. Yes, TWO.
One for the LAN, the other for hi-speed internet. Go figure.
One for the LAN, the other for hi-speed internet. Go figure.
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zekthedeadcow
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I have an AT&T 286 that doesn't have the co-processor. . . I completely dismanteled it for parts. . . but I had fun going to Best Buy lastyear and asking for a daughter card and math co-processor. . . heh they had absolutly no idea what I was talking about. . . but they reacted the same way when I asked for a true speed CDROM (for my linux computer which will max out the RPM's for a bit when it tries to look at a CD)