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I'm going to agree with the message by vpc/jlc as far as CPU choice.  I
don't think it is fair to say that AMD is better than Intel or that Intel is
better than AMD.  I think it is a matter of what you need vs. what you are
willing to spend.  AMD will give you a MUCH better deal as far as
price/performance is concerned.  In fact, the AMD K6's (BTW - they stopped
producing the 166mmx, so better start thinking 200) are faster in Windows 95
than Intel's chips are.  If you are looking for a chip that has a powerful
fpu (used the most in games and cad-type software) intel is the way to go -
if you are willing to pay the price.  AMD's chips have a respectible fpu -
better than Cyrix.  If you want my opinion - save your money - don't buy and
Intel.  If you are looking for game performace, buy a 3d accelerator (such
as Orchid Righteous 3D ~$160) that will push 27+ frames per second in Quake
with a K6-200.

As far as HX vs. VX - VX was basically a useless board.  It's support for
SDRAM isn't all that impressive.  I'd chose between HX or TX.  TX makes good
use of the SDRAM and moves right along.

Western Digital - go for it (if you chose HX).  They're a nice reliable
drive.  On the other hand - if you buy a TX motherboard - you can make use
of the Ultra DMA features (ie. 33mb / sec transfer rate compared to HX's 16
mb/sec transfer rate).  If you do that - buy a Quantum drive that supports
Ultra DMA.

Hope this helps out.