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To: tanstfl who wrote (19033)	4/24/2001 11:09:51 AM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110635

tanstfl, I like the looks of that system...nice components. Let us know how it goes together. Also your experiences with the component suppliers. I might just follow you down the same road.....if all goes well. Any reason why you went with on motherboard sound rather than a good sound card?

To: tanstfl who wrote (19033)	4/24/2001 12:03:28 PM
From: Esteban	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110635

tc, I'll be building a very similar system soon. I came to the same conclusions regarding price-performance. I already have 512 DDR memory and then got cold feet with some reports of inferior performance with two of the three chipsets made for the DDR memory. I'm waiting for the new VIA KT266 chipset motherboards to work out their initial bugs, if they do soon. If I had to buy right now I'd go with the AMD 761 chipset as you are. One comment from a newbie box builder. The AMD's run hot and you may want to extend the life of your processor by springing for a better fan/heatsink combination. There are some websites devoted exclusively to cooling AMD. Jeff Jordan on the QCharts thread is building a 1200 TBird system and posted this about cooling: Message 15706120 He might have some insight in this regard. Best of luck and let us know how things go. Esteban

To: tanstfl who wrote (19033)	5/4/2001 8:55:57 AM
From: tanstfl	Respond to of 110635

Athelon 1.333 from components: All the parts got here by last Friday except for the new case, which came yesterday. Started putting it all together late last night and finished and had Win2K installed by 2 AM. Everything went flawlessly, and Win2K installed very quickly. Good for those frequent re-installs. I must say, I got very good service from all vendors; two to four days except for the cases. And since they are expensive to ship, I went ground and expected the delay. (I was going to use the power supply from an existing case, but got caught up in other things.) I've since gone back and looked at some ratings on the vendors I used: resellerratings.com resellerratings.com resellerratings.com resellerratings.com The ratings are not very good, but they do not reflect my experience. However, I try to order name brand items where I know the manufacturers will back their product (even if it takes a while) if the distributor doesn't and I use a credit card so that I can have them force a refund if necessary. I also have never had a DOA from the manufacturers whose brands I bought except for IBM, and IBM has always been exceptional at replacing defective products. (I've had a couple of bad drives from them, but they're so quick that I call them first instead of the distributor.) If I were buying no-name modem, sound card, motherboard, video, etc. I would use distributors with higher ratings. (I learned long ago that buying those no-name things cost a lot more in time to get them working properly than the upfront savings in purchase price.)