Lee Roberts wrote: > I'm shopping for a motherboard and CPU. At least a Pentium III and maybe > I'll spend the bucks for a Pentium 4. I'll consider AMD also. Any
Someone can flame me for this, but all the benchmarks show the 1.2 athlons whooping P4s for half the price. call it the chipset or memory or whatever, but it's still faster. Not to mention that with a P4 you'll have to buy new RDRAM memory AND a new power supply. You can use ATX on an athlon mobo as unless you go for dual athlons. you can also take (some) solace that AMD has promised to stay with their current form factor for the next few years. so theoretically, you can buy a mobo now for a duron, and later with a bios upgrade, you can upgrade to the latest whatever they're on by then (it's been a while since I've read the roadmap). I run a KT266-Pro From MSI and it is great. DDR memory, USB 2.0 support, and It works with mandrake, red hat (6.2 or later) and freeBSD since 4.3. the audio chip will work with mandrake, but it's not supported (magic I guess). If you're an audio person I reccomend grabbing a sound card. no onboard video.
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