Motherboard Recommendations, and a hello...

[Jeffrey Creem]

Gary Kaufman wrote:
>
> I'm starting to plan a new system for myself, probably
> based on Intel Core 2 Duo.  I'm ready to attempt the
> Linux-leap for myself as well.  I was wondering what
> folks might recommend for motherboards.  I've had
> great experiences with ASUS, but the reports I've seen
> on the web for Ubuntu and the ASUS P5B Deluxe have
> been mixed.  On-board graphics would be fine as my
> needs are very modest.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts!
>
> - Gary
>
>   

If you are willing to consider a full system you might want to consider 
an E6600 (Core 2 Duo) based machine from PCDepot in South Nashua

http://www.pcdepot.com/table/buspc_piii.htm

I got one in early January and it was a good price. I've had pretty good 
ASUS experiences before too but
had been interested in trying an intel based motherboard. The E6600 
machine at PCDepot is a an intel 975BXb2 which

XP Pro is included in the price. I did not ask if they would drop the 
price if  you left off XP Pro since I was going to use this to dual boot 
but it is probably worth asking.

I've built the last few of my home machines because 1) I wanted to 
configure them in ways that is hard to do with off the shelf stuff and 
2) If your home machine just works out of the box, what is the point :)

But then the last two machines I put together (for a server and a 
zoneminder server) I had gone with Dells because I could not come close 
to beating the price bulding my own.

The recent PCDepot experience went well, the price was good and the 
configuration was close enough to what I wanted in this case.