AMR riser cards......

[GT98]

Anyone have experance with these? I'm trying to get together a system for my girlfriend and I have an extra Celeron 300a that I plan on using with a ABit WB6 motherboard (810E board) and I'm not sure if I need the AMR card for modem/sound with the board.

Scott


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Abit BH6 with a P3-450@558,128mb RAM,G400 MAX,SB Live!, Optiquest V95 19in montor, Asus 40x CD-ROM, Aopen 5x DVD-ROM,HP9110i 8x4x32 CD-RW,SupraMax 56k modem, Win98 SE on Western Digital 30.7GB, Win2000 on a WD 13 GB HDD

[Wombat]

AMR isn't so cool. It's just there to give OEM's a cheaper option.

You can use a regular PCI (or ISA if there's a slot) modem/sound card in the motherboard.

[ObiBen]

Hey Scott,

The Audio-Modem-Riser cards are okay. It depends if you care if your girlfriend's computer is going to be a real performer. AMR cards are completely software based, so her computer will likely take a performance hit when running modem and audio through one of those. Go with Wombat's suggestion, just buy separate cards for the devices you require.

Also, my friend's opinion on the modem part of the AMR card is that it's okay, but not for gaming. He would get slow connects to his ISP, so he decided to get a 3COM PCI modem, and now he's happy.

Regards,

Ben