Hi, I've had wonderful success with the IBM Ultra 66 line. However, you
should get a
mobo with a Ultra 66 compatible controller - some include the 80pin HDD
cable. The Tyan
S1590S has worked out, but you will still have some issues withe the VIA
chipset.
I hope your not considering the Gigabyte 5AA or 5AX with the ALI chipset.
I've been having
trouble with fierce instability on 2 in the field. Unfortunately, many of
the ASUS Super 7 mobo's
are ALI chipset as well. Hopefully, someone else has had much better
success.

Tiago A. T. Miranda wrote:

(snip)
>         What do you think about IBM harddisks, reliability/performance ?,
> i'm wondering because a 15Gb IBM HD Ultra66 7200rpm it's 25% cheaper (in
> Portugal) than a Quantum/Western Digital 12Gb!
>
>         I'm considering using an AMD Athlon 500MHz, but i'm having
> problems with wich motherboard to use (GigaByte or Asus) ? And they are
> not easy to find...
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