xcalibre wrote:
>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.
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Cool. I may have to give them a look as well.
>I have also used nVidia FX5500, and 5200 made by BFG Asylum no problems.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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I have absolutely no experience with later hard drives as I've been
using a bunch of antiques to date. The biggest drives I've got in my
corner of the room are two 20G's and a 10.4G. My wife has a 40G in her
machine, but that's what came in there. (a Walmart HP)
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>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.
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>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.
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>Now if I can find a good deal on a 3200+ Athlon 32 I could still use one.
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>B.Preece
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I will definately have to look at the Gigabyte boards. I would love to
be able to build my new system for cheap. I want to go socket 939 so as
the prices go down, there will be plenty of room for upgrading. My
current machine does have an Asus with a P4 on it, and it has never
given me any kind of trouble.
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