Hello, i have a Athlon system with a Gigabyte MotherBoard, i am
very please with it. I would not recommend going for the FIC because it is
a bit tricky to setup and it is somewhat unstable. I have heard/read good
things about the Asus and the Abit motherboards for the Athlon.

        Either way,  you will be pleased with the Athlon.

        Hope it helped,

                Tiago Miranda

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Frank R. Brown wrote:

> My son and I are planning to assemble a
> computer.   At the moment we are intending
> to base it on the AMD Athlon chip.
>
> We've seen both the Asus-K7V and the
> FIC SD-11 mentioned a number of times
> as good candidates for the motherboard.
> The FIC seems to be consistently a little
> cheaper.
>
> Would people on this list have any preference
> for one vs. the other?  Would anyone know
> what we'd be giving up by going with the cheaper
> FIC?
>
> Also, we're looking at the following cases.
> casedepot carries two atx mid-tower cases
> with 300W power supplies: their 436 and 468.
> (The 436 is an In-Win A500.)
>
> Any recommendations (good or bad) about
> casedepot?  Any recommendation about a
> case?  We were thinking 300W for the Athlon,
> and to support some expandibility.  We were
> thinking mid-tower with decent accessibility,
> also to support expandibility, and in general,
> just to make messing around easier.  (After
> all, that's the whole point of this, isn't it?)
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
>
>
>      Frank R.Brown
>      Frank.R.Brown@MailAndNews
>
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