Take a look at the Elitegroup ECS K7S5A motherboard. It's only $99 Cdn ($0.50 American?), which frees up a fair bit of extra coin to jump a step higher up the MHz ramp. Through the extra hundred into a 1.6 GHz Palomino or higher if the price is right. The board is stable, and runs just slightly slower than the MSI KT266A which is at least $130 more expensive. Comes with onboard LAN, which saves on a PCI slot. The onboard video and soundcard suck though, but who the hell uses onboard vid and sound unless they've got an N-Force anyway!!!
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August 19, 1942
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