tuff decision

im having problems choosing a motherboard for my new pc. Im getting an
athlon 64 bit proccessor, but im not sure what brand to get or what
chipset is the best. Any comments?

"shawnC" <> wrote in message
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> im having problems choosing a motherboard for my new pc. Im getting an
> athlon 64 bit proccessor, but im not sure what brand to get or what
> chipset is the best. Any comments?

Why do you want a 64-bit CPU? There're no 64-bit operating systems available
yet and won't be for a couple of years.

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Zebedee

(Claiming asylum in an attempt
to escape paying his debts to
Dougal and Florence)

"Zebedee" <abuse@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:<40bf6fc0$0$8089$ >...
> "shawnC" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
> > im having problems choosing a motherboard for my new pc. Im getting an
> > athlon 64 bit proccessor, but im not sure what brand to get or what
> > chipset is the best. Any comments?
>
> Why do you want a 64-bit CPU? There're no 64-bit operating systems available
> yet and won't be for a couple of years.

Maybe he will want to run those operating systems in a couple of
years. And there actually are some Linux versions that run on 64-bit
systems, if I remember right. I also think that today's processors
will still be viable in a few years. Look at processors from 3 years
back. They were maybe 1 GHz? Well, that is still good for most
things now.

Finally, the 64-bit processors are fast. If they perform as well or
better than equivalently priced processors, why not get them?

Aaron

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Zebedee wrote:

> "shawnC" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
>> im having problems choosing a motherboard for my new pc. Im getting an
>> athlon 64 bit proccessor, but im not sure what brand to get or what
>> chipset is the best. Any comments?
>
> Why do you want a 64-bit CPU? There're no 64-bit operating systems
> available yet and won't be for a couple of years.
>

SuSE Linux 9.1 includes a 64-bit version for AMD64 and Intel.

(No; I will not get into a Linux versus Microsoft debate here.)

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Ron n1zhi

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"Ron Cook" <> wrote in message
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> SuSE Linux 9.1 includes a 64-bit version for AMD64 and Intel.
>
> (No; I will not get into a Linux versus Microsoft debate here.)

Ah. I see.

I don't really understand why Linux and Micorsoft users bash away at each
other either. I use Linux on my server as it was £5 for the CD wheras
Microsoft's server software costs a couple of thousand.

But I use XP on my PC, Win 98 on my mum's PC and NT4 on my laptop.

--
Yours

Zebedee

(Claiming asylum in an attempt
to escape paying his debts to
Dougal and Florence)

shawnC wrote:
> im having problems choosing a motherboard for my new pc. Im getting an
> athlon 64 bit proccessor, but im not sure what brand to get or what
> chipset is the best. Any comments?

Based on quality and features, Asus, Abit, and Gigabyte are very good. For
value motherboards, Shuttle and Asrock would be my two choices.