mairving — Wed, 23 May 2001 18:19:34 +0000

As far as your other question about the board to use. You may consider the Abit. I haven't built any boards using Intel chips in a little bit but I will ask around.

mairving — Wed, 23 May 2001 18:17:48 +0000

Must of been Maximum PC magazine. It's pretty cool if you have the time. Check out the current issue. There is a picture of one that a guy did with a Ford logo on it. The logo was on a clear plexiglass panel that was cut out of the side. Inside the case he had installed a neon lite. Pretty cool.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 23 May 2001 18:10:35 +0000

I probably should have menioned hardware that I need the motherboard to support. Sorry.

I have a Slot 1 P3 700MHz, 512MB PC133 RAM, AGP video, 2 USB devices.
I want 5+ PCI slots. And I don't care about ISA slots.

I saw a neet article in one of my cousins magazines about painting cases. Looks really kuel. I wanna try that.

Thanks for the links Mairving!

mairving — Wed, 23 May 2001 16:42:52 +0000

I really like the Epox boards myself. Abit is also a good board. It depends somewhat on whether or not you plan to overclock. It also depends on which processor you are using. Asus is good but I had so many problems with one of their boards that I wouldn't use another.

Here is a case that I really like a lot. Make sure to upgrade the power supply to 300W.
Here is the Epox motherboard that I like. It has 4 dimm slots on it too.

For motherboard reviews, check out Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, Overclockers.com and bxboards.com.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 23 May 2001 01:15:36 +0000

Is there somewhere were I can read reviews and such?

I've been to some venders websites, but it's a pain to have to flip back and forth between all those sites to compare products. And doing that, I can't really compare performance, just features.