[Pc_Support] Staying with 32-bit: PC3200 or PC4000, 166 or 200MHz Athlon?

[Damien McKenna]

[$80 mobo]
> But does that get you anything interesting?

Shop around.  You'll tend to get Firewire, SATA, USB 2.0 High Speed,
etc, all the good basics.

> I am getting the impression I shouldn't settle for a 
> mainboard with any chipset other than nForce3 (for 754) or
> nForce4 (or better, for 939)?

Looking at the reviews it seems this is true.

> 754 is about to be dead though, too, isn't it? ;)

Yeah, Socket 939 looks to become the new low-end next year when they
bring out *another* new socket type.  <sigh>  Still, with a socket 939
you can start off with a base CPU now and upgrade to a faster dual-core
chip later, which is my intention.  Probably late next year I'll upgrade
a few bits (CPU, gfx, maybe RAID), for now I'm just going to get my
backup drive going and we'll be grand :)

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