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 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
