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Howard_Casto:
A quick note about the duron, it's geared towards other types of processing and is going to be slightly slower for emulation, stick to a athlon.  It won't make much diff now if you get a really fast one, but when the machine becomes obsolete and is stretched to it's limits the athlon is going to out perform the pants off of the duron for stuff like mame and pc gaming.  

Bugfinder (can't login):

--- Quote ---#1 athlon rocks!  never buy craptel.....
(our university politics force us to give other depts intel machines but when we build our own for our dept they are always athlon :)   )
#2 athlons run hot!  you better get a good fan

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I agree here...


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as for boards....

gigibytes, shuttles, and abits are great

anything else sucks

the new dragon, however, is growing on me and seems to run well.  Otherwise stay away from soyo in particular. The soyo boards have a tendancy to be cheaply assembled.

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...and totally disagree here. I've been using Soyo's K7VTA-Pro for long time now, have built over 45 machines using this product and don't have a single headache with them. I'm very, very satisfied with the product, and I prefer this one instead of Dragon because speed gain is almost unnoticeable and price difference is horrorful. Plus it comes with a handy ISA slot.

bob:

--- Quote ---With the mobo, chipset is more important than manufacturer these days. And for Athlon XPs, there's really only one choice: Via's KT266A. Yeah, there's the KT333, which will probably replace the KT266A eventually but the jury is still out. My mobo is a Shuttle AK31+... nice 'n' cheap, does the job.

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I've got the same mobo. I had to do some research on google to find out how to turn the clock up from 1ghz to 1.3, because it defaults to 1.0..

There is one advantage pentiums have. Since they run cooler, the fans are quieter. Probably not much of an issue in a Mame cab, but there it is.

Bob

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