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. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml