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
