I just had an ASUS P5A installed with an AMD K6/2 400 chip.  It's great!

Be aware that it has a 100MHz bus so RAM needs to be appropriate -- altho they
tell me regular DIMMs will work, but you lose some of the speed of the faster bus.

Uzi Paz wrote:

> I need to assemble a non expensive PC for someone, so I thought of
> either K6II-400MHz or Celeron 400MHz.  I understand that the AMD is
> better but that the Celeron can be put on a standard slot-1
> motherboardwhich means that if she wants to upgrade to Pentium II or
> III, then it is possible. I guess that my preferences is for the AMD as
> when she wants to upgrade, probably none of the existing motherboards
> will be relevant.
> Now I have to choose a reasonable non expensive motherboard for the
> k6II.
>
> Life is easier for me if I  choose Celeron, but I guess that my decission
> to go with the k6II is correct. She will use the PC for Internet, and for file
> manipulations, and perhaps also for simulations (research).
> Most of the sellers here don't know which is the company that produce
> the SDRAM, so I guess that the motherboard has to work even with the
> cheap 100Mhz RAMs.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> Uzi
>
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