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From: "Nathan Vidican" <webmaster@wmptl.com>
To: Vanwaesberghe Werner <werner.vanwaesberghe@imaware.be>
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Subject: Re: questions about athlon motherboard choice 
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> I am looking for a new motherboard and would like to know if anyone 
has any
> experience with the AK73Pro motherboard.
> I would also like to buy a IBM GXP75 - 45 Gb harddisk and a AMD Duron
> 800Mhz CPU.
> 
> Are these components a good choice or ?
> 
> All remarks and suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Werner van Waesberghe
> 
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Personally, I've never heard of nor dealt with that MB. I've always had 
a preference towards IBM and/or Maxtor for ATA disks, but again, I 
havn't yet had the oppertunity to deal with that particular disk 
either, (though I plan to shortly). As far as the Duron CPU goes; I'd 
highly reccomend against it, for the few bucks difference go with the 
Athlon instead. There is a big performance difference from an 800mhz 
Duron to an 800Mhz Athlon. I'm currently running two Athlon systems as 
beaters before I put any into production; configuration as follows:

Machine 1:
  AMD Athlon 700Mhz SLOT A
  Dual CPU Fans
  Three extra Case fans
  ASUS K7M MB Patched w/ newest Bios
  128megs PC133
  20Gig 7200RPM ATA Maxtor HD
  16X DVD-Rom Drive
  Adaptec 2920 SCSI, (controlling several CD-Roms and an Iomega Zip)
  
Machine 2:
  AMD Athlon 850mhz T-Bird, (Socket A)
  Gigabyte MB
  128megs PC133
  30G 7200RPM Maxtor HD

Thus far (knock on wood) no problems with either machine. If all goes 
well, I'd like to have an Athlon running as a mysql server within the 
next month or so.
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Nathan Vidican
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