Need help deciding right motherboard for the following components

leigh6

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Jun 2, 2004
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Hi all,

I am in the process of building 3 computers. What combination of components will produce the best systems. I really do not know the difference in the biostar and the Asus motherboards.

No heavy gaming. Just basic stuff.

Motherboards:

Asus A7N8X
Asus A7N8X-VM/400 rev 2 (onboard gf 4)
Biostar M7NCG400 (onboard gf 40)

2500 barton retail
2500 barton retail
2000 XP retail

160 Gig Seagate 7200 8 cache
80 Gig Maxtor 7200 8 cache (new)
80 Gig Maxtor 7200 8 cache (1 year old)

Ram; (Have Kingston Value Ram (3-3-4) 2 sticks of 512 DDR 400
Kingston Value ram 256 DDR 400 ch-5 winbond chips (2.5)
Will buy what ever is appropriate to finish off the 3 computers

1 ATI 9600se (obviously going in the A7N8X)

2 Antec 350w power supplies with Antec cases
1 Generic Case with 350 watt power supply

Optical Drives will be installed depending on the quality of any individual computer

I guess that is it. If this is a ridiculous post I am sorry.

Thanks in advance, Leigh
 

Fern

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Sep 30, 2003
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Ok, my .02 worth :)

Asus A7N8X + 2500 Barton + 2x512MB ram +antec 350w+9600se

Asus A7N8X-VM/400 rev 2 (onboard gf 4) + 2500 Barton + 256MB of K.V.R. (plus buy another stick to go along for total of 512MB) +antec 350w

Biostar M7NCG400 (onboard gf 40) + 2000 XP + purchase 512MB ram+ generic psu

Re: HD, put the big seagate on whichever pc will hold the most files/data. Put the two Maxtors on the other rigs.

Hope that helps,

Fern