Modem Riser Card

[CPUseless]

I recently fried my old USR v90 ISA modem, and I was looking for a cost effective (cheap) replacement. My mobo (FIC VA503A) has an AMR slot, which will accept a modem riser card. I can pick one up for about $20, including shipping. Does anyone know how well these perform? It uses some modem features that are built in to the mobo, so I am assuming it uses the system CPU for signal processing. Is there a large performance degradation due to this? Should I just bite the bullet and buy a good PCI modem? I'm so confused!!! http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/confused.gif http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/confused.gif http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/confused.gif

[Rhubarb]

As far I understand it you will only notice a decrease in performance if you system resources drop below 92%

[CPUseless]

I would think that if you had a few apps open at the same time, (Perhaps Explorer, Word and Outlook wouldn't be unreasonable) you would have considerably less than 92% resources free. How much of a performance hit are we talking about?

FIC VA503A
K6 III 400@450
128M SDRAM
Viper V550
Win 98