[geeks] PC question

Kevin kevin at mpcf.com
Fri Feb 21 02:52:58 CST 2003


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I'm considering one of them.  I hate having everything and the
kitchen sink built onto the board, but these days most boards
seem to come that way, good and bad.  Even the cut down MCP
chip has an on board NIC.

I miss the days when we didn't have HD controllers on board.

/KRM

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:32:14 -0600
"Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:59:30AM -0500, Kevin wrote:
> 
> > I've always used Intel chips in the past but now i'm
> > leaning toward a single or dual Athalon box, but i don't
> > want to deal with a 100 fans in my box or anything odd.  I
> > just want a decent, solid box to run linux and be able to
> > compile and render fast. No bargain basement stuff, i
> > don't mind spending money on it since it will probably be
> > my main workstation at home for the next two or three
> > years.
> 
> Well, if you must do x86, I find the Nvidia Nforce boards
> interesting. Especially the new nforce2s.  Haven't tried
> them though, since my newest x86 box is circa '96.
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