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- Subject: Opinions wanted on GW2000's DX2/66 EISA Bus System
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.113049.14577@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 11:30:49 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec20.113049.14577
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- I like the idea in general of EISA. On the other hand, I've gotten
- pretty bumbed out about paying top dollar for 32-bit slots and not
- having any 32-bit cards to put into them. So, for the longest time
- now I've been ignoring EISA systems I see in ads and concentrating
- on VESA local bus systems.
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- By chance, almost, I looked closely at GW2000's DX2/66 EISA bus system
- and noticed that for just $800 more than their DX2/66 VESA local bus
- system, you get a 500MB 11ms SCSI hard drive with 32-bit EISA SCSI
- controller. (As oppsed to a 340MB 13ms IDE hard drive with Local Bus
- interface.)
-
- There are other differences like getting a Tower as standard over
- a desktop, 8 EISA slots rather than just 2 32-bit VESA slots, and
- a 128K external cache rather than a 64K cache. (The minus is you're
- back to a 14" monitor rather than a 15").
-
- Now it seems to me, that $800 practically covers the extra expense of
- the SCSI hard drive plus EISA controller alone. I mean, it *looks*
- like this hard drive is really gonna haul ass over the VESA system.
- Is there something I'm missing, or will a 13-ms IDE drive with Local
- Bus IDE interface do almost as well?
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