Harvey,

I've had excellent luck with the Elite Group (ECS) K7SOM+ series of
motherboards. I've built 3 or 4 with this board, and two of them came with
the Duron 1.2 GHz Processor which was, unfortunately, integrated into the
board. I have had no problems whatsoever as of yet, and the first is the one
I'm using now. This board gives you a wide range of memory that can be used,
and all the onboard drivers are extremely easy to load upon installation of
the OS. (XP SP2, and no problems)

I have upgraded to the NEC multi format DVD RW drive, and it works well,
although video editing can become a bit slow most likely because I am only
running 512 mb of RAM (PC2100). Master HD is a Seagate 30 gig, slave is a
Western Digital 20 gig.

Just my humble opinion, hope it helps.

Regards,

Dean Kiley

> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Building my own PC
>
> I wish to build my own PC from scratch.  I know many of you out there have
> done just that and I would be grateful if you could send me your tried and
> true "recipes" for building a good, dependable PC.
> I don't need anything super, just something which will handle a burner,
> printer and scanner, with WindowsXP.  Something fully upgradable for
> future operating systems, of course.  Also, as few integrated elements as
> possible, even though my budget is limited.
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
> Harvey Alaric

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