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I'm ready to upgrade my tired old Celeron 300A (overclocked to 450MHz)
and upgrade to a newer processor and motherboard.

I'm leaning towards an Athlon XP processor and appropriate
motherboard.  Can anyone make recommendations on a good IDE
motherboard.  I've looked around a bit and found a few places that
offer Chaintech and FIC motherboards with the Athlon XP.  Are these
good or should I look for others?

Also, can someone point me to a good Linux VAR (value-added reseller)
site that lets you mix-and-match components?

I've looked at www.idot.com and like their setup, but they have a
limited selection of components.  Any others out there?

Thanks for any help.

-Michael

Quote:> I'm ready to upgrade my tired old Celeron 300A (overclocked to 450MHz)
> and upgrade to a newer processor and motherboard.

> I'm leaning towards an Athlon XP processor and appropriate motherboard.
> Can anyone make recommendations on a good IDE motherboard.  I've looked
> around a bit and found a few places that offer Chaintech and FIC
> motherboards with the Athlon XP.  Are these good or should I look for
> others?

> Also, can someone point me to a good Linux VAR (value-added reseller)
> site that lets you mix-and-match components?

> I've looked at www.idot.com and like their setup, but they have a
> limited selection of components.  Any others out there?

> Thanks for any help.

> -Michael

The Epox EP-8KHA+ is a pretty good board. You might want to check out
Tom's Hardware for motherboard reviews. http://www.tomshardware.com. The
other place you might want to checkout is http://www.pricewatch.com to
find the best prices, I've had good luck with newegg, atacom,
allstarmicro and accessmicro. I generally by memory from crucial. Access
Micro offers preassembled/tested motherboard bundles that gives you a good
choice of motherboards, processors, fans and RAM.

http://www.accessmicro.com/bundle/index.phtml?kitid=KTAXPDDR#product

Yes as a matter of fact this is an awesome board.

SOYO SY-K7V Dragon Plus!

Excellent board. Great for the overclocker!
1 x master AGP Pro slot
5 x 32-bit bus master PCI slots
2x EIDE controlers w/ up to 4 Ultra DMA 33/66/100 devices
IrDA compatible infrared port
6x USB connectors
PS/2 mouse connector
PS/2 Keyboard connector
IDE Raid Function
C-Media Audio
Lan on board

I highly recommend this one you won't be sorry.

Quote:> You might want to check out
> Tom's Hardware for motherboard reviews. http://www.tomshardware.com.

        That site crashes Netscape 4.7[79] on my Solaris or Linux
        systems.  Anyone else have trouble with it?

        Thanks...

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I'm using Netscape 4.78 from the RH 7.2 dist.  I can load the site and
it pretty much works OK....but it is unnecessarily fancy and
occasionally locks up Netscape in Linux.

I'd already been to Tomshardware (been going there for years!).
Another similar site you might try is http://www.anandtech.com

-Michael

Have you tried Galeon yet?, it's much stabler then Netscape 4.77. I've
replaced Netscape with the combination of Galeon for brousing, Evolution
for mail and Pan for News.

That's 4x channels for 8x devices