I would recommend to stay away from FIC mother boards.  I have had nothing but issues with mine, and everybody else I know is dissatisfied with their purchase also.  The VIA chipset requires many patches and even after all the work it seems awfully flaky.

Travis Neal

Bill Talburt wrote:

> I am going to build my first PC in the coming months and would appreciate any suggestions regarding the best desktop case to buy and what motherboard and chipsets I should be looking at.  I am thinking that I want a processor at about 400Mhz. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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