Do you want to buy online ? Newegg.com apparently has very good pricing and great service.
> 1. The AMD Athlon chips are faster and much cheaper than building an > equivalent Pentium system? Pentium ? Whats that ? :) > 2. There's not usually too much difference in the chip prices either, $10 or > so per 100 mhz so is it's worth getting the fastest available?? not me > thinks. I have a 1.1 Ghz Athlon, more that suits my needs. > 3. They have just brought out some new chips, palamino, which have more > cache, but are more expensive so I think maybe it's probably isn't worth > going with. I would recommend one of the new XP series processors, why not go with the latest and greatest (not necessarily the XP 1800+ but the lowest of the XP series). These processors (may) be MP capable :) > 4. ECS Elitegroup motherboard - K7S5A. I'm looking at this as it seems a > good one as the chipset is fast and reliable. Abit and Asus are the best in my opinion. You may want to visit some of the hardware review sites out there (anandtech.com / arstechnica.com) > 5. AMD Athlon 1.4GHz. This is the 266Mhz bus version and is plenty fast > enough. The motherboard and CPU were $180 with another $20 for a decent > heatsink and fan for the cpu as they run quite hot. Once again, I recommend the XP. The motherboard I have never heard of. > 6. Found 256meg 2100 DDR ram $36 - bargain! www.crucial.com Why not go 512 (Win2000/XP/*NIX will love you). > 7. video - A Radeon 8500 !!! or Geforce2 video card. What's the story with > MX versions as they are performance crippled versions of the Geforce 2 GTS > and above. The Pro or Ultra are good and the Geforce3 is even better but > seems pricey... Do you play a great deal of games ? If not, the MX are more than enough. 8500 is overkill for someone surfing the net and such. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=23838&t=23826 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
