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September 7, 2003 07:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 1:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I believe there were only 7 Mandrake Tested motherboards.  I'm
> > running down those right now to see what they're like.
> >
> > Regards,
> > "The Other" Stephen Stubbs
> > Champaign, IL
>
> Attached is a collection of bits from list traffic, that may help you
>
> Anne

Hi;

Since Anne included some of my insanity in that attachment I guess I'm 
entitled to an opinion. ;)

Recent installs/builds for friends, starting with a "budget" system for 
a neighbor:

ECS KVSOM (Duron 1300) working acceptably, no AGP slot.
ABit KT7 (different models Raid and non -R) Excellent performance
Asus various with AMD and VIA chipsets as above
Tyan and Soyo boards, dredge the archives. I haven't built any systems 
with either for almost a year.

I've also used various Gigabyte boards for systems. More than adequate, 
but as always I tend to stay away from the bare budget boards 'cause I 
don't like having problems.

The last three systems I stuck together for people were based on Asus 
and ABit dual processor boards. They use the same AMD chipsets and both 
are more than adequate, the Asus seems to perform slightly better in 
the real world.

Stay away from anything with an N-Force chipset....for now. Unless 
you're comfortable building and patching for the nv-net (ethernet) and 
other gotchas. My son has an N-Force2 board that works amazingly well, 
but I still wouldn't recommend them for anyone that classes their skill 
levels at "Gnubie."

HTH
Charlie
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Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org
Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-5mdk
10:00:53 up 1 day, 43 min, 1 user, load average: 0.31, 0.15, 0.05
Lay off the muses, it's a very tough dollar.
                -- S.J. Perelman
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