I just ordered an MSI 694D Pro. (Didnt want to wait for the ABIT VP6) Since I havent installed it yet I cant make a recommendation based on personal experiance but only the specs and Tomshardware review. http://tw.msi.com.tw/showroom/mainboard/eng/694dpro.htm http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q3/000911/index.html It has some pretty impressive specs. Dual Processors up to 2gb ram 4 ATA/66 drives 4 ATA/100 drives no ISA 5 PCI/1AGP/1CNR 4 USB! 2 Firewire! Onboard sound that can be disabled if you get the -AR version the ATA/100 is also a RAID controller. (no linux support for this promise raid controller yet!) This board has alot of stuff going for it. Toms hardware did a review of it and it faired pretty well. I ordered this and a PIII 850 I hope to clock atleast to a Gig. Then I can just add another PIII850 later on. 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org