My best results on mother boards have been eic FIC . They make a wide range of boards and have a wide range of prices from simple to everything including the kitchen sink types. I have some good results with asus,  people will probably give you a wide arrangement of answers to most based on personal experiences which is cool , but it means you will find a different motherboard for each type of personallity.  you may want to for your customer to be able to have a ease of use type computer and then the thing that may be more important is a simple bios. I would say go for award bios on that this person probably doesn't need to be tweaking his system to hard and award has very accomadating default settings. I hope this helps.

On Sun, 02 April 2000, "Nasser, David" wrote:

>
> Good folk,
>
> I have built a scant few desktop systems. All featured
> Intel cpu's and chipsets. The last I built was a year
> ago. I am somewhat out of touch.
>
> Myself and a friend with similar experience need to
> build a desktop system for a retired gentleman who
> is expected to run only Quicken and a web browser.
> Cost and reliability are top priority: performance
> is much less important.
>
> My friend has an old AT case and power supply. We are
> thinking that it _might_ be practical to find a good
> inexpensive lo-end motherboard with built-in features
> (sound, etc.) that supports AMD K6-2 cpu, socket 7.
>
> My friend is looking at Amptron boards. I lack
> familiarity with the equipment, vendors.
>
> Any advice is welcome. Should we be looking at
> Amptron boards? Soyo? SIS or other chipsets??
>
>   Zalut and TIA,
>   David
>
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Thanks,
Brendhan Horne


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