on 21. July 1998 21:10 Chuck Hassenplug <snip> > I am looking for a motherboard and am >willing to spend $100-$150. I'm not >using a Pentium II and probably don't need >AGP, but it couldn't hurt to have <snip> Basically you have the choice between two chipsets the ALI Aladin V and the VIA Apollo MVP3 (or ETEQ). Some might say "What about SiS?", but that's not really a 100 MHz chipset.I would go for the VIA chipset as you can run it asynchronously (CPU at 100 /memory at 66 MHz) and you can have up to 2 MB of second level cache and of course up to 512 MB cacheable area (I haven't seen one, but its in the specs) all non Intel 100 MHz boards that I have test results for have problems with the AGP support so you're going to be web surfing for updates if you do decide to get a AGP card. based on the results I have for 15 100MHz Super Socket 7 boards I would suggest the EPOX EP51 MVP3E-M with 1 MB of cache and 256 KB of cacheable area or the NMC 5V-MMX which is the same board (With NMC you have to be careful, you never know which company is making their boards at the minute) On the negative side is: Problems with the i740 graphic chip (No picture, should be fixed with the next bios update) Problems with the soft-on/off switch (HD starts running again and is then cut off, not healthy in the long run.) Cheap (low quality) DIMM sockets. My personal opinion is to wait another 3 months till the problems have been ironed out of all of these boards. If you want the test results e-mail me and I'll scan them in and send it to you. hope this helps Rick Swartz