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Re: Motherboards



Infoltel is offering a Soyo motherboard with a Athlon 900 MHz processor and
and a PCI sound card for $169. plus shipping.
Wayne


D-Man wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it
> | from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run
> | a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up
> | in Debian.
> |
> | I thought I would consult here as to the motherboard that will give the
> | least compatibility problems with the various chip sets available and
> | for on-board sound.
>
> I have a Gigabyte motherboard for my Duron 750 processor (it should be
> able to handle Athlons as well).  It is based on the AMD 750 chipset
> and I have had no problems with it (yet anyways ;-)).  The Tyan
> Thunder K7 board looks cool (its a SMP board for the AthlonMP
> processors and has a lot of stuff on-board) but has a price tag to
> match its feature list (~$600).
>
> On this list I have heard a lot of issues with the VIA KT133 chipset,
> but I have no experience or documents to back that up.
>
> HTH,
> -D
>
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