Hi,
        Fic 2013 and Asus P5A (not the P5A-B) are both ATX boards.  I've also seen
a few Ata-66 motherboards out there, but mostly with the SIS 530 chipset
(SS7, integrated video and audio).  I think the 810 is suppose to support
Ata-66.  Another warning, Linux sometimes has trouble with chipsets that
integrate the video chip into the chipset (I think this is mostly dealing
with X-windows and possibly Gnome and KDE, but I am not sure)  SIS 530 and
Intel 810 are both integrated chipsets.

Just my two cents,
Donald Gaither

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Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 1:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Building My Own Computer - Confused by Choices


On 9 Jun 99, at 9:39, Vincent Lim wrote:

> 1.    Should I get a Celeron or a AMD in the timeframe that I have
> allocated myself?  If so, which clock speed should I get to?

  I don't know of any really good SS7 motherboards in ATX, so I'd say that
if you want ATX (and I'd recommend it for a new machine) that AMD is out of
this picture.

<snip>

> 6.    Should I buy DMA-66 harddisk instead?  What's the actual
> performance differences?

  I haven't seen actual support for Mode 5 *or* DMA-66 yet; in both cases,
the drive should fall back to whatever the board does provide -- which will
still probably provide more throughput than the drive can sustain.


David G

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