[LUG] budget motherboards for AMD

["Chris Edwards" <chrised@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

does anyone have any recommendations or recent experience of buying a budget
motherboard for AMD (Duron most likely, for an all new box but keeping the
old monitor, mouse etc). Hoping to keep the overall cost down to about £300.

Currently I am tending towards a Gigabyte GA-71XE as it has lots of PCI
slots and 1 ISA and costs about £50 inc VAT.

For me on board sound and graphics are a plus, but an AGP slot would be
interesting for later u/g.
233 RAM is not a priority
A desirable spec for me is Duron 900, 256MB 133 Ram, 40GB HD, CD RW, NIC *
2, and a case and PSU of course.

I have no previous experience putting a box together, but have checked out
various sites for linux compatibility.
http://lhd.zdnet.com was especially good.

re the "just curious" posting, my current setup is
P2 233,
96MbRam,
4MB STB Nitro 3D  graphics card
Ensonic PCI sound card
3 & 8 Gb HDs,
Colorado T3000 tape drive(have not got it to work under Linux)
17" Crystalscan monitor
Dual boot Win 98, RH 7

Cheers
Chris Edwards

Totnes
chrised@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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