Motherbroad recommendation

[Taklord]

is was wondering if you guys can recommend a motherbroad(with SATA) for a amd athlon xp 2600+,333fsb and can you help me pick a hard drive

DiamondMax 10 200G SATA Hard Drive SATA150 7200RPM 8M Cache <9ms seek time $248.26

DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA Hard Drive SATA150 7200RPM 8M Cache <9.3 seek time $256.55

ps. is for playing games

[pctek]

is was wondering if you guys can recommend a motherbroad(with SATA) for a amd athlon xp 2600+,333fsb and can you help me pick a hard drive

DiamondMax 10 200G SATA Hard Drive SATA150 7200RPM 8M Cache <9ms seek time $248.26

DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA Hard Drive SATA150 7200RPM 8M Cache <9.3 seek time $256.55

ps. is for playing games

ASUS A7N8X/Lan OEM SocketA nvidiaGeforce2 ultra 400 NC18 ATX FSB400 Dual DDR400, 3XDIMM 1AGP8X 5PCI 6CH Audio USB2 , 10/100Lan

and

the 2nd 1st HDD - it's the cheaper of the two and not much diff.

[Murray P]

Check out Pricespy. You can get 200GB SATA 8MB cache drives for less than $256-. To expand your choice, there's nothing wrong with Seagate or Western Digital drives.

[pctek]

Check out Pricespy. You can get 200GB SATA 8MB cache drives for less than $256-. To expand your choice, there's nothing wrong with Seagate or Western Digital drives.

I prefer Seagate but I thnks its the 8mb he's looking at there......

[Murray P]

There are 8MB cache drives there for less than the price mentioned for the Diamond MAx drives. They're all much the same these at the mo, although I admit to a soft spot for Seagate too.

[KatiMike]

Taklord , apart from SATA , what else do you want from your board ?
RAID , LAN , firewire/ multiple USB2 , front audio ?? etc
What OS do you intend to install ?
As it's to be a gaming machine have you a preference re video card? AGPx8 or PCIe ?
ASUS , Gigabyte , MSI , Tyan [maybe not for your processor ... ] , Soltek all make good boards , and there are others eg Albatron that may be great [ no personal experience ] There is a great variation in price between all of these .

[TonyF]

Anandtech has some interesting gaming recommendations ....

[pctek]

As it's to be a gaming machine have you a preference re video card? AGPx8 or PCIe ?
ASUS , Gigabyte , MSI , Tyan [maybe not for your processor ... ] , Soltek all make good boards , and there are others eg Albatron that may be great [ no personal experience ] There is a great variation in price between all of these .

He says for his "Athlon XP 2600" so it has to be a socket A board and there aren't any that I know of, with PCI-E on it.

[KatiMike]

so your point is ?? Rethink of processor ??
socket 462 boards good for playing games ... many ....
and it is known the original thread - starter is a "he "
I have so much to learn ...

[Taklord]

just to up date on the pc am puting together this is what i have so far:

GECUBE RADEON 9250 128MB $79
Kaizer 860 Tower case Sliver $99
LITE-ON 52x32x52 CDRW+16X DVD COMBO $90
MITSUMI 1.44 FDD BLACK $27
Logitech® Access™ Keyboard $95
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Digital $55
Hyena 450W ATX P4 ,ball bearing, 2 fans $110

and i'm going to be running windows 2000, fedora core 3 any sugguestions is again welcome