Critique my potential new toy...

mbpark · 07-01-2001, 02:36 PM

I bought my sister the Asus A7V133 motherboard.

It's got ATA100, RAID, 3 DIMM sockets, and can support the latest 266Mhz FSB (133 Mhz DDR) Athlon chips.

The motherboard smokes. Windows 2000 Professional loves it. It is the basis for a very fast Athlon 900 system that I built Faith that has 384 MB RAM, a 30GB 7200RPM ATA100 HD, 12x DVD-ROM, floppy (for that legacy stuff), GeForce2 MX (okay, I skimped on that because the card is more than good enough for 3D and 2D for her needs), SB Live! Value Edition, and Netgear FA311TX Fast Ethernet card (which I recommend highly, and works with the latest Linux distros).

She gets an Athlon 1.4Ghz CPU and 1.5GB SDRAM later this year so she can use her clinical programs (graduate student in audiology and speech and hearing disorders), which eat RAM worse than anything Microsoft could ever make because they have to process much more data than you think.

I like your choice of CPU and sound card. I'd get that ASUS Motherboard (A7V133) instead, and stick in a DVD-ROM drive. RAM is so cheap that you can easily pick up 512MB for under $50 if you know where to look on Pricewatch or eBay.

Mitch
(welcome back, vsp!)

07-01-2001, 02:36 PM	#6
mbpark Lecturer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Carmel, Indiana Posts: 761	That ASUS Motherboard I bought my sister the Asus A7V133 motherboard. It's got ATA100, RAID, 3 DIMM sockets, and can support the latest 266Mhz FSB (133 Mhz DDR) Athlon chips. The motherboard smokes. Windows 2000 Professional loves it. It is the basis for a very fast Athlon 900 system that I built Faith that has 384 MB RAM, a 30GB 7200RPM ATA100 HD, 12x DVD-ROM, floppy (for that legacy stuff), GeForce2 MX (okay, I skimped on that because the card is more than good enough for 3D and 2D for her needs), SB Live! Value Edition, and Netgear FA311TX Fast Ethernet card (which I recommend highly, and works with the latest Linux distros). She gets an Athlon 1.4Ghz CPU and 1.5GB SDRAM later this year so she can use her clinical programs (graduate student in audiology and speech and hearing disorders), which eat RAM worse than anything Microsoft could ever make because they have to process much more data than you think. I like your choice of CPU and sound card. I'd get that ASUS Motherboard (A7V133) instead, and stick in a DVD-ROM drive. RAM is so cheap that you can easily pick up 512MB for under $50 if you know where to look on Pricewatch or eBay. Mitch (welcome back, vsp!)

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