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22914B/0—September 1999 A Guide to Building a PC with an AMD Athlon™ Processor
ISA and PCI Card Options
When you upgrade from an older system, you may find that all your old ISA cards
won’t fit in your new AMD Athlon processor-based system.
Photo 52 shows network cards (top), sound cards (middle), and SCSI cards (bottom).
The ISA is on the left and the superior PCI card is on the right. In every case, the PCI
card has added functionality. Where the ISA network card is 10BaseT, the PCI card is
10/100BaseT, for ten times the maximum throughput.
The PCI soundcard typically adds 3D wavetable sound positioning and the latest PCI
SCSI cards are UltraSCSI for fast throughput.
Photo 52. ISA and PCI Card Options
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