Yousuf Khan wrote:
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: Well, I'm fortunate that way, I am still running a Socket A
: Athlon XP system, and I expect that there will be absolutely
: no upgrade path for me, other than a complete system overhaul.
: So I can start off right away with an AM2 system, as necessary.

That's "funny", I am too. Been running an Asus A7V333 with an Athlon XP for
5 years now. Just now starting to see a problem with one of the capacitors
(see my previous post re "solid capacitors") leaking, and am starting to do
the research on my next major overhaul. Was thinking at first at going with
Intel just for the Core-Duo (Conroe) thing, but I'm more and more leaning
towards AMD now. I'm pretty agnostic when it comes to CPU and chipset
vendors...just want the best bang for my buck. What I really want is decent
performance (read stability) and throughput. I do a lot of work on
Photoshop CS2 plus tons of video (re)encoding on my current machine. I see
dual-core as an absolute godsend in this arena as it will "free up" my
computer to do other tasks while encoding. Anyway, am now thinking about
the following AM2 mobo:

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?m...2=101& l3=296

Why? Simply because it's one of the few I've found so far (socket 775 or
AM2) that still sports TWO IDE channels (ie, to connect four devices) and
also is capable of using ECC memory. Don't know if this is the best
performance board I can get, but it does have the options I need. I would
definitely like feedback from someone on what they think of the Integrated
GeForce 6 GPU.

Later

/TLG

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