[lug] Motherboard recommendations?

[Rob Riggs]

You should be able to do it for well under $600. Decent Athlon 
motherboard ($100),  Athlon XP 2000 processor ($100), 512MB ECC DDR RAM 
($150).

I bought an Abit motherboard recently and was quite happy with it. The 
KX7-333 boards can be had for ~$80. I've heard very good things about 
the Soyo Dragon motherboards. They are a little more expensive though 
(~$120).

This should easily handle mail and web (and FTP!) over DSL. (Can you say 
"overkill"?) :-)

-Rob

Chip Atkinson wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I'm going to put together a server and wanted to ask for some opinions.
>Here are the constraints that I know of:
>I'd like to keep the thing under $600 for motherboard, memory, and
>processor.  I have all the other cards, disks, and case.
>
>I'm going to be using it as a mail and web server mainly.  Perhaps FTP,
>but that's up in the air.  It'll be attached to a 640K DSL line.
>
>It will have a RAID card in it as well.
>
>Any comments?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Chip
>
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