new to forums and want help building new system

[Blackthorn]

hi everyone
im starting to build a new system and i am new to this so i would like some help.

so far i have a mid tower w/ a 250 PS
32x cdrom and a floppy(know i could do betteron cd but already had it)
keyboard and mouse
for the video i have a voodoo 3 3000 AGP
and a Aopen 10 mbps pci nic
I am trying to do this for a small amount of money as i am limited to cash flow

I am planing on using a 700 Duron chip and pc100 ram and i also plan on using a 20gig maxtor drive
Right now i am leaning towards a gigabyte board slot or socket doesn't matter
I'm just not sure as to what would be best to use as i am planning to triple boot with win9x NT and linux so i can game and get familiar with NT/2000 for mcse coarse that i am taking
if any of you can give me sugestions towards a motherboard, it would be helpful and appreicated
thanks for any input you give

 

[Mem]

If you can afford a little more money for your Motherboard,go with the MSI K7T PRO,I`m using one right now rock solid,btw I do a lot of gaming & you cannot go wrong with this board for stability.All Durons are Socket A so you will need a Socket A board like the MSI.

 

[Blackthorn]

thanks for the reply Mem
it seems like around me that board is a special order and the price is on the dear side

hope that some others have some suggestions

 

[andri]

Stay away from Maxtor. Really slow hard drives. Go for Quantum or IBM.

 

[MANKOU]

I'm not a PC Expert but I have searched a lot because I, like you, am short in money. MSI K7T Pro, Duron 700 and 64 MB SDRAM 133 was my decision. I would buy the Gigabyte GA-7ZX, a stable mainboard as well, but where I live I could find only the microATX model (GA-7ZM, STAY AWAY). As for the hard disc, a friend of mine bought an IBM (don't know the model) and is very satisfied.

 

[ToBeMe]

<< Stay away from Maxtor. Really slow hard drives. Go for Quantum or IBM >>

Excuse Me..........ever heard of a 75GXP????????????

 

[Konrad]

MSI K7T PRO, Duron 700, IBM 75 GXP and 128 PC 133

 

[birddog]

I have had many headaches dealing with Maxtor drives. I have gotten them all to work, but it took me along time to get them set. Their Maxblast partitioning software is real crap &amp; I had trouble with FDisk on them also. I recommend you go with a Western Digital drive. It will cost you about $10 more, but it is well worth the price. Their partitioning &amp; formatting software is real simple to use (even for a beginner). I have no experince with quantum or IBM HD's, so I cannot tell you anything about how user friendly they are.

You may want to post in General Hardware Forum to get some more specific advice.

 

[masterskartrg]

my experience with harddrives is ibm 75gxp has probably the best overall speed and reliability.wd i also use and its quite good.quantum ive never had any experience with but heard they are okay.and maxtor i had a 15gb 7200rpm ata66 one and to be honest it always have corrupt files every other day when booting couldnt figure out why either but as soon as i switch to wd never had that problem.again i would have to say ibm is probably one of the best ide harddrive right now.btw seagate barracuda2 ata2 i heard is pretty good but waiting for them to ship the ata100 barracudes first