Motherboard recommendation

satimis · 12-30-2003, 10:51 PM

Hi folks,

I am searching an ECONOMICAL motherboard, ALL-IN-ONE, to build a workstation running LINUX, preferrable Gentoo 1.4 compiling from source code. My expected requirements are as follows;

CPU AMD Athlon XP, 2.4G
RAM 1G and above, DDR333
Build-in Video and Sound cards
Hard Drive ATA100/ATA133

I found following models from Gigabyte;

- GA-7VA
- GA-7VM400M
(GA-7VA is about 10% cheaper)

Any comment and/or suggestion of equivalent board would be appreciated.

TIA

Happen New Year and B.R.
satimis

scheidel21 · 12-31-2003, 05:05 AM

it really depends on what you want, ie for expandability. ie firewire scsi cards. Also what chipset you want ie VIA or Nvidea, SIS.....I might recommend a Nvidea chipset their integrated north bridge is really excellent. a question though any reason why you haven't considered Intel?

--Alex