I have the KT7A-Raid and I am very happy with it. Have been running it for
the last 3 months or so. It is a very good board and had 4 ide port so you
can put 8 IDE drives into it. All in all it is a very nice board.

Christian

> 
> > I want a Duron and motherboard as I have the rest ready to go.  I'm
> > looking for some advice on:
> > 1) What speed chip to buy.  Of course higher is better, but I remember
> > reading that there was an increase in FSB speed between two models.
> >  Anyone know what I am talking about?
> 
> Darrell
> 
> I have a Duron 850 Abit KT7 combination as suggested by Scott.  Both the
> board and the 
> chip are well priced. 
> And as suggested I bought extra RAM with the money I saved.
> 
> This board also supports the the 266Mhz core in the Athalon Thunderbird
> if you have the 
> dosh to go that way later.
> If thats what you mean about the different FSB speeds.  The Duron only
> comes in the 200Mhz flavour.
> 
> Has been running about 2 months I'm pretty happy with it. 
> 
> 
> Mark  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 2) What motherboard I should buy, but I should be asking which chipset
> > works best with Linux?
> > 3) Anyone had any problems/gotchas using AMD chips/chipsets?
> > 
> > Hope someone can help.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Darrell
> 
> 

