1) good choice, there is no reason to go for a Intel CPU yet, the new athlon
XP processer at 1.5G can just kick 2G P4's behind.
2) from personal experience, both should be ok, but I do not like MSI for
the reason that MSI board seems like have more IRQ conflicts.
3) MX200 is too slow for games, 400 is good for games which don't require a
lot of 3D, go for GTS.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "SatPrem Reddy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 5:50 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] motherboard for Athlon1.4


Hi all,
 I am planning to build a new system for my home. I've got a few decisions
to make.

    1)Athlon1.4 vs P4
       I am pretty much decided here that I am going to go for Athlon. But
any
comments would be welcome.
    2)ASUS A7V133 vs MSI K7T Turbo (SDRAM boards)
       I can get an MSI at half the price of an ASUS. So, is the price
difference
really worth the small performance difference between the two boards? How
about a Gigabyte board?
    3)GeForce2 MX 200 vs GeForce2 MX 400 vs GeForce2 GTS
      I am not much of a gamer, but I do play a lot of games. Basically I am
looking for a decent card at a reasonable price. I want to know if the extra
price is worth the difference in their performance.

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