motherboard

[athalus]

i'm half way through schooling to take my a+ exam and
i finally decided it was time to build my own machine instead of buying from *ell. i'm a big fan of *alcon computers and they use the asus motherboards. i was wondering what you would suggest. i am planning on a 1ghz thunderbird for the processor w/256mb of ram and a ibm deskstar 45gb hard drive. any suggestion for my 1st home built computer?

 

[Arrow]

What are you planning to use your system mainly on? Games? School assignments?

Rob
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[athalus]

i'm a gamer. c&c, diablo 1&2, warcraft 2, septerra core and the soon to be released black & white. also, now with the release of the geforce 3, the 2's are dropping in price & i plan on putting one in the machine.

 

[Guest]

with the kind of games you play though, your video card won't be used to it's max...

"Bit, Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terrabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte, Yottabyte..."

 

[Arrow]

JrPuter is right; you wouldn't be using that video card to its full potential. However, you can expect price drops on the GF2 once GF3 is out.

Rob
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[athalus]

i agree about the video card but the trouble is with voodoo gone there really is no other choice unless someone knows of a good ati that does glide titles and that's what most of those games are. anyway, back to the orignal question. any suggestion for the motherboard?

 

[mwgorecki]

Expensive stuff. Check www.pricewatch.com instead.

sz

 

[mwgorecki]

Asus A7M266 mobo. I will get mine in 2 weeks. DDR baby!

sz

 

[Guest]

um... glide? isn't glide dead now?
go with an ati if you want but i prefer asus' GeForce2...
and as for the mobo, if i were gonna buy a computer, i'd wait 'til the KT266 and the AMD760 chipsets mature 1-2 months...

"Bit, Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terrabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte, Yottabyte..."