[Gllug] Looking to buy a new motherboard and processor at Tottenham Court Road.....

Martin Stevens budgester at budge.net
Fri Jun 21 18:31:27 UTC 2002


I will say that I use the IWill KK266 mobo with a IWill SCSI card, and have done for the past
year, it has worked an absolute dream for me, apart for my laziness
of not bothering with the onboard sound card, but as usual YMMV.

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:20:24PM +0100, John Southern wrote:
> On Friday 21 June 2002 11:53, you wrote:
> > .....and I plan to spend something like 80 - 120.
> >
> > Are there any motherboards that the Linux user should stay well clear of
> > for a quiet life?
> 
> Prices today are :-
> 
> ABit from £35 for a KG7 with 6PCI 1AGP Skt 462 (Skt A) 266 Bus AGP 4x 2GHz XP 
> ATA 100 to KX7 333Raid £115 with ATA66/100/133 133Raid
> Asus from £60 A7s333 to £120 a7v333
> Elite from £50 k7s5a to £60 K7vtr3
> Gigabyte from £60 GA-7VTXE+ to £90 GA-7DX
> IWill from £100 KR266 to £105 KR266R (aid)
> PC Chip about £50
> TMC (Tiawanese Metal Corp) about £60
> 
> DDR ram is about £30 for 256
> CPU's - XP 1600 (1.4GHz) £65
> XP 1800 (1.5GHz) £80
> XP 2000 (1.67GHz) £115
> 
> Zalman flower coolers £30
> 
> 70n
> 
> 
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