[LUNI] Two Hardware Questions

[Arun K. Khan]

On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 08:53 -0600, Robert Morrison wrote:
> First question:
> 
> I'm looking to do a desktop build based on one of
> the mid-range Core 2 Duo processors. I spent some
> time yesterday looking at parts like:
> 
> ASUS P5B-E
> GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3
> 

About a 4-6 weeks back TigerDirect (Naperville store) had a bunch of OEM
Intel boards in their clearance center for $20/pc.  I got lucky and
picked up a Intel D945GTP  board (Dual core, 4 SATA ports, 7.1 ch Audio,
1 Firewire and 4 USB - add'l FW/USB headers, 10/100 LAN, shared memory
video, 4 DIMMs for DDR2 mem.).  Might be worthwhile to check out their
clearance center.

The mobo, cpu (2.6G dual), 512 MB cost me around $190.  I had the other
necessities - FC5 installed w/o any probs. all devices on the board
detected and working.

I would recommend the above board.

HTH,
Arun Khan