>Well, we've discussed the best distro for AMD64. Now, how about turning >it around. >I saw General Nano offering an Athlon 64 for $499 >(http://www.nanosys1.com/sys-h2825.html) and it got me looking at Athlon >64 mobos. >Anyone got any suggestions? Tyan S2885 featuring a complete AMD-8000 chipset (AMD-8111, AMD-8131 and AMD-8151), SATA with optional RAID, AGP 8x slot, four PCI-X slots, one PCI slot, eight DDR-SDRAM slots, two 940 Opteron sockets, one GbE, one FireWire, five USB 1.1, AC97, Winbound Super I/O, hardware monitoring, and an AMI 4Mb BIOS. http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8w.html This board is available from http://www.monarchcomputer.com/ for little more than $400. Check http://www.pricewatch.com/ yourself. Monarch Computer has some experience with building machines for Linux (has been featured in Linux Journal a few times). Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list