Well, I've been boycotting Intel for a long while, so I recommend an Athlon. A 600 mHz one is only around $100 or so. ASUS mobo's are top of the line and I've had great experience with their Athlon mobos. RAM is, well, RAM. I've never had a problem with the cheap, generic stuff. As far as cases go, I used to be totally sold on Inwin cases (I have a Q500A full-tower), but if you want a _really_ kickass case, go with a SuperMicro. I swear they make the sturdiest, coolest cases. I expecially like their 760. It's designed for a dual Xeon system, so with a little ATX mobo and a single CPU, there is plenty of room to move around in it. Though, once again, it's a full-tower case (which I prefer - I don't know much about mid-towers). Though, for what it's worth, my next machine will be a dual G4 Mac, so I can't really be relied on to be up-to-date on PC tech :). Gabe On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:32:18AM -0500, Kent Schumacher wrote: > I came home last night to a dead motherboard. Terribly sad. > Now I have to upgrade!!! > > Anyone have any recommendations? I would like to get something > this week so possibly I need to purchase locally. > > At any rate, I want to keep my hard drives, sound, video, and ethernet cards. > I guess I'm looking for a motherboard, with processor and memory installed > in a new case (my current case is circa 1990, and it doubles as > my helicopter landing pad...). > > Case: Midtower w/ accessible bays for 2 CD drives and a floppy > > CPU: Something in the 650Mhz or better range > > Memory: 128Mb or better > > Mainboard: I don't need any ISA slots, all PCI is good. I want an AGP port > and good USB support... > > Anyone have recommendations about what works well with Linux, and where to > buy it. This system will never run Windows (or CPM, or other legacy OS's)... > > Whoo Hoo!!! A new toy^H^H^Hcomputer system! > Kent > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "I've been known to lie, but this here's a true story." - Narrator in "Big House Blues" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org