Shared components..
 

Still suck, right?

what do u mean ? modem, audio, video and cobos like that ? well they phucking suck. i'll never get anything with combos unless i'm at subway ;)

yeah..

video,audio,lan,modem and shit..


it seems its not as sucky as what it used to be.. especially for audio..

well i like to be able to change my own stuff and not have conflicts when i do it like on my old amd k6-2 ( i know the shame of amd)

if you want to add stuff, you just disable the shared component. .

Amd.. right now I have a Duron 800, and it runs soo smooth..
Anyways, I need a new one, cause my little bro is on a P100.. so I'll give him the 800, and I'll take the XP2000(or whatever processor speed I decide to get)..

They aren't horrible. I have a dual AMD board with onboard lan/sound and it works pretty well. I can also disable them and put in separate cards if I feel like it.

well se, I'm planning on going with a Asus A7V8X.. with onboard lan+audio..

I need heavy duty audio support (since I work alot with music related stuff), so I'm guessing the audio wont cut it..

but the Lan should be ok, from what I heard..

Now can someone confirme that these shared components wont use cpu processor power or cpu ram?!

They will use CPU power. Thats the nature of PCI components. All integrated components will still use the PCI bus.

Its minimal at that. It was a big deal when we only had 166MHz to work with. But the the GHz machines don't flinch.

The audio is probably decent for most people. But if you do music & such, you'll want a good card to handle it. The LAN is probably sufficent though.

ok.. from what I understand, some integrated components are software based and others are hardware based.. and software based is what grabs cpu ressources.. Not the hardware based stuff..

then again, how do I know whats software/hardware based?!

All of your integrated components will use CPU power. The only types of add-ons that typically do not use your existing CPU are generally SCSI cards(high end versions, low end still use system processor), audio cards & some modems.

Usually a product will state whether it uses an onboard processor or not. Or whether its hardware based. If it doesn't state either, then its software based.

-Audio-
Realtek 6-channel CODEC
S/PDIF in/out interface

humm, I dont like "codec" too much.. So ok, purely sofware.

-LAN-
Broadcom® 10/100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps Ethernet controller
this looks ok..


this is the board: http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7v8x/specification.htm

We use onboard NICS on all of our new machines.. They work fine. Everything else is pretty much what Addict said.:yes:

The Realtek audio is so-so, regardless of whether its 6 channel or not. It may hold you over until you get a better card though.

right now I have an SB live from 2001, they were 4ch..

and it does everything I need it to do..

how does the realtek compare to my current one?

Its nice because of the 6 channels. Other than that, the SB live is better.

ah crap.. I dont need 6ch.. ok anyways, I'll give it a try and if its isnt enough, then I'll get a new Live5.1..


Again, thanks for your advice! I'll be buying in early May, so if anything comes up, that I should know of, please let me know.

one week before I buy, I'll probably start a thread with the breakdown of what components I'm getting.. just for criticism..

a very good idea

so it shall be..