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RE: [TCLUG:6233] Builing A System
If you don't mind mail order go to www.pricewatch.com and you'll probably
get the best price.
Chris
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Barnholtz, Brian wrote:
> I've decided that the ASUS P2B-F is the motherboard for me. Does anyone
> have any suggestions for suppliers. I check Gen. Nanosystems and they
> no longer carry or care to order this board. The only source I found is
> CompUSA and they have to order it. Any Ideas.
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: schewe@tcfreenet.org [SMTP:schewe@tcfreenet.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 5:13 PM
> To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:6233] Builing A System
>
> On 2 Jun, Perry Hoekstra wrote:
> > At 01:26 PM 6/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >>I am about to build a new system from scratch, and this will
> be my first
> >>time at this. Does anyone have any motherboard
> recommendations to use.
> >>I am not afraid to spend money if it is worth it. Any other
> help on
> >>peripherals would be appreciated. I want to run Red Hat on
> this system
> >>as well. I have only used RH & Caldera. I like RH the best.
> Does
> >>anyone have any comments on this.
> >
> > I liked the ASUS P2B-F motherboard, especially its emphasis on
> PCI slots
> > versus ISA slots. The LAN Admin/PC guy at the client I work
> for currently
> > agreed with me (there is no better barometer of a person's
> intelligence
> > than how often they agree with you) and built about six PCs
> using the ASUS
> > P2B-F mb for developer use (including mine). The motherboard
> runs about
> > $140.00
> >
> I just built a dual P-II/III system and the two best boards for
> this
> seem to be the Tyan Tiger and the ASUS dual board. However the
> ASUS is
> about $100 more and for no good reason, that anyone I talked to
> could
> find.
> --
> Jon Schewe
> schewe@tcfreenet.org
> http://tcfreenet.org/~schewe
>
>
>
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