🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm in the same boat..
I've read a couple of things about building athlon systems lately. I
reccommend you buy from a dealer who is fairly good about returns, as the
current crop of MB's for athlons don't seem that wonderful.
I read one story about a guy who went thru 3 motherboards (An ASUS K7M, then
a MSI, then a K7M again) before getting it working (Turns out only the first
was actually faulty... )
Athlon seems to be very picky about voltages and RAM. Be warned. :)

Still, the Athlon 500 seems like a good buy atm, and I only wish I had the
cash to buy one.
TT

Ken <mcclane2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:80j944$ek5$1@arachne.labyrinth.net.au...
> Alright im 90% sure im going to get an Athlon 500. Just a few last checks
> before i go and spend my hard earned cash.....
>
> 1) Ive heard that some software (very vague as to what software) may not
be
> compatible with the Athlon. I dont personally believe this to be true. Has
> anyone run into problems or have heard of any problems with software
> compatability?
>
> The stuff that i will be mainly doing on my comp is games (halflife,
> starcraft type games) some web stuff like homepage maintenance, learning
to
> do some graphics editing, hopefully getting into composing music (ie
> cakewalk guitar studio. yeah i know, but i cant play the synth....yet!!).
Of
> course i will have the standard stuff like win98, ms office.....
>
> 2) Is it easy to build? what sort of things do i need to be aware of when
i
> put it all together? ive got a friend whos put together intel machines
> before...is it the same? or are there some differences that i have to be
> careful of?
>
> thanks
> ken
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