Motherboard Recommendations, and a hello...

[Shawn K. O'Shea]

Just a comment on PC Depot. I picked up a motherboard/CPU/memory combo. The
price was good for a decent MSI mb with Athlon & 1/2 GB. I'd buy from them
again.

-Shawn

On 2/1/07, Jeffrey Creem <jeff at thecreems.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
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