- Oct 13, 1999
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$69.99
Sempron 2600+ retail box (ad mentions "Heatsink/Fan")
ECS NFORCE3-A motherboard (Nforce3 250 chipset)
Zap's thoughts: I think this board is better than the deals with the SiS chipset board. There are reports that the SiS chipset board doesn't support Suspend To RAM and this one does. Also, this board has been known to OC to 250MHz clock, the maximum available in BIOS. This would make the CPU an equivalent Sempron 3300+ (2GHz 128k).
$39.99 AR
Buffalo Wireless-G 125Mbps high power router (model WHR-HP-G54)
Zap's thoughts: Buffalo isn't well known but it does garner a few recommendations here and there as being solid. This particular unit is notable for a few features. The ones of interest to me are RP-SMA antenna connector (some units use other connectors or non-removable antennas), switch to convert from wireless router to normal access point (disables WAN port, disables DHCP, changes IP from default) and perhaps the most notable is "built in amplifier" that claims 60% more power output than typical wireless routers.
$24.99 AR
Buffalo Wireless-G 125Mbps high power PC Card (model WLI-CB-G54HP)
Zap's thoughts: This is the matching PCMCIA card (whatever happened to that acronym anyways?). It claims 35% higher power over "standard" notebook adaptors. Besides that, this has an external antenna jack - really rare in notebook cards. From what I can tell the external jack is called "MC" and is the same as those found on Orinoco "Gold" cards.
I'm hoping to make it down to Fry's before sale ends to pick up these items.
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Sempron 2600+ retail box (ad mentions "Heatsink/Fan")
ECS NFORCE3-A motherboard (Nforce3 250 chipset)
Zap's thoughts: I think this board is better than the deals with the SiS chipset board. There are reports that the SiS chipset board doesn't support Suspend To RAM and this one does. Also, this board has been known to OC to 250MHz clock, the maximum available in BIOS. This would make the CPU an equivalent Sempron 3300+ (2GHz 128k).
$39.99 AR
Buffalo Wireless-G 125Mbps high power router (model WHR-HP-G54)
Zap's thoughts: Buffalo isn't well known but it does garner a few recommendations here and there as being solid. This particular unit is notable for a few features. The ones of interest to me are RP-SMA antenna connector (some units use other connectors or non-removable antennas), switch to convert from wireless router to normal access point (disables WAN port, disables DHCP, changes IP from default) and perhaps the most notable is "built in amplifier" that claims 60% more power output than typical wireless routers.
$24.99 AR
Buffalo Wireless-G 125Mbps high power PC Card (model WLI-CB-G54HP)
Zap's thoughts: This is the matching PCMCIA card (whatever happened to that acronym anyways?). It claims 35% higher power over "standard" notebook adaptors. Besides that, this has an external antenna jack - really rare in notebook cards. From what I can tell the external jack is called "MC" and is the same as those found on Orinoco "Gold" cards.
I'm hoping to make it down to Fry's before sale ends to pick up these items.
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