ASUS, and Gigabyte are very good boards. I am more of a Gigabyte fan, Next I would go AMD save the money from going INTEL, use the money to go towards Memory or larger hard drive. Also I have been using ATI cards no problem at all. I have ATI AIW 9800, 9700 and 7500 none of them have ever given me one problem.
I have also used nVidia FX5500, and 5200 made by BFG Asylum no problems.
Chip sets nVidia makes a great chipset how ever I have a Soyo board that has a VIA set again no issue.
Knoppix, Kanotix, Ubuntu, have given me no issues with any of these mentioned at all.
As for Hard Drives the only ones I stay away from is Maxtor they seem to give the most problems out of any brand I have seen.
Lately it seems that Seagate has stepped back up on quality and offering a 5 year Manufacture Warranty.
I still prefer WD how ever I know people using Samsung and others with no problem.
I recently purchased a 64 bit Gigabyte Motherboard, Nforce chipset, 5 PCI slots and 1 AGP, and a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor for a whopping $172.00 $112.00 of that was for the Retail CPU.
I was trying to find a Gigabyte 7NNXP and a 3200+ CPU how ever this is like finding a needle in a hay stack.
Also the 3200+ Athlon 32 bit still goes for about 170.00 alone if you can find one. If I could find the Mother board that would be about another $170.00 so you can see why I went with a 64. Also it runs 32bit just fine.
Now if I can find a good deal on a 3200+ Athlon 32 I could still use one.
B.Preece
-----Original Message-----
>From: michael hast <evylrobot19@cox.net>
>Sent: Dec 20, 2005 9:28 PM
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: [SLUG] More and More Hardware Recommendations
>
>Robert Snyder wrote:
>
>> Here is my list of the good hard preformer
>>
>> Athlon XP 32bit 3200 +
>> 512 of DDR PC333
>> Nforce 2 Motherboard
>> Nvidia GF4 AGP card ( cheap and good since you dont game)
>>
>>
>I'm thinking of building myself an Athalon 64. Would you suggest an
>Asus board there? (Sorry to hi-jack the thread.) I had been leaning in
>the Asus direction, but am certainly open to other options depending on
>pros and cons.
>
>--
>--Michael Hast (the evyl robot)
>Always remember that too much pot spoils the cook, and if you have nothing to say at all, don't say anything nice.
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