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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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