Re: [LUG] budget motherboards for AMD

["Lee Quick" <leequick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris IMHO you can't go wrong with a gigabyte mobo probably not the most
overclockerble, look elsewhere if that's your bag! as for CPU try if you can
to buy a duron above 1000 as this has a cut down but very optimised palomino
core called Morgan. My duron 1200 is actually Faster that the equivalent
athlon! and in sisoft sandra outstrips a P4 1.5ghz and that's on good ole
Sdram as well ;)

I have a Gigabyte Ga7-zx and it has a SoundBlaster 128 onboard and dual bios
rock solid and blue in colour also! yay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Edwards" <chrised@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: [LUG] budget motherboards for AMD


> 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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