Forum Overview :: American McGee's Honda Civic :: ASUS

[quote name="jeep"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Good or bad.[/quote] ASUS = Good everything else questionable That's not 100% true for pentiums, because I buy Intel's own boards (the <a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-121-194&depa=0">D865GCLCK</a> now runs about 1/4 of my machines) but for AMD's, all my home systems are asus now, the sole abit board I had I replaced about 30 days later, it couldn't handle the memory. Here's where I've been buying if you want trustworthy parts and good prices. No real surprises: newegg.com (of course) thenerds.net (good prices on 10 packs of motherboards) crucial (memory) I saw a Viewsonic 17 LCD today for ~$400 but I can't find it now. I've been buying 5, 10, 20 at a time lately and the 'price point' lead me to this config for office equipment: <a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-121-194&depa=0">Intel D865GCLCK mobo</a> (good office board: sound, video, gigabit ethernet) ($109) <a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-116-174&depa=0">Intel 2.8E Prescott Chip</a> (800mhz fsb!) ($167) <a href="http://www.crucial.com/store/MPartspecs.Asp?mtbpoid=6C37D13FA5CA7304&WSMD=D865GLC&WSPN=CT6464Z40B"> 2x512MB crucial sticks</a> (dual channel 400mhz) ($194) <a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=11-190-003&depa=0">Athenatech Micro ATX Case</a> (blue, glowy) ($38) <a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=22-135-106&depa=0">WD 7200 WD800JD Hard Drive</a> SATA = Fast ($70) <a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-131-226&depa=0">DVD+/-RW 8X Sony DWU18A BLK </a> DVD burner ($76) Now that's $654 for a machine that's going to get faster the next couple of years as Windows catches up with the hardware, or in my case is very fast right now as I'm running 30 linux workstations with it. I almost went with the dual amd64, but not even linux runs it well. you have to get a special build for 64bits, which means you're compiling all your own software, and it's very expensive. can do that for the same price, probably, but you don't really get much out of this version of windows at 64bits. <a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-131-490&depa=1">ASUS Athlon 64 Board</a> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-452&depa=1">Athlon64 2800+ chip</a> crappy cache on the chip, though. The good ones start at $300. jeep[/quote]