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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (226460)	2/20/2007 2:19:45 PM
From: eracer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Can you recommend a good AM2 chip for SFF for around $125 or less. Going in a Shuttle SFF. Lower the power the better I suppose. I haven't built a SFF system myself. If the BIOS supports Brisbane and full load operation was the exception rather than the norm I'd be tempted to use a Brisbane X2 3600+ or 4000+.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (226460)	2/20/2007 5:10:04 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Jim, My advice would be to stay away from Shuttle. I bought about 9 of their XPC boxes (different models), and I don't think a single one of them worked flawlessly. I like the boxes, but thier motherboards are the crappiest motherboard of all. Probably even worse than Abit. The first ones I bought were K7 based (I think nForce 2 based), and they were remotely acceptable (with minor flaws), but from there, it turned sharply for the worse. I have since been buying nForce 6150 / 430 based MicroATX mobos, and I have been largely content. Joe