On September 30, 2001 09:44 am, Jerry McBride wrote: > > I have decided I want to go down the Athlon route... >
Good choice. I am running an Athalon Thunderbird 1400MHz and it flies (stable too)! > Nice start. Prices have really been dropping like leaves lately. I've seen > $30 256meg > sdrams at work... > I picked up 512Mb of DDRAM when I was building this box for about $70 per 256Mb stick. > > One board that has shown favorable reviews for quality and reliability, > > the ECS K7S5A, which includes AC97 audio (which is supposed to be the > > same across al boards is it not?). "SiS 7012 PCI" are the specs from > > the ECS website. And a built-in NIC, which according to the ECS site is > > a: "SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet". > I am using an ECS card with the TBird. It uses the SiS 735 chipset and it has ethernet, graphics, NIC, sound support and a game port. However, I'm not a big fan of onboard components (they usually provide cheesy performance), so I've disabled them and am using my own add-ons. -- burns _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
