Hi all, As I falue the help and opinions in this forum, I would welcome a little input here if possible. There does not seem to be a 'dedicated' forum on here for my Q? I am going to buld my own computer within the next few months and after doing a LOT of homework searching different sites for info, I think I've come up with what may be a sweet machine (within my budget constraints), I have 'decided?' to opt for the following :- Epox 8KHA+ mobo AMD 1.4 or 1.6 Thunderbird @266 fsb 256 DDR ram 40 Gig HDD @ 7200 Other current devices will suit for now, but this is the main feature so to speak, so, for those of you that have no doubt a great deal more experience than I do, I would appreciate any comments about this set up, many thanks in advance. Steve

When you say Athlon 1.6, I assume you mean Athlon XP 1600+. I don't really like that motherboard that much. I prefer the ECS k7s5a. Its cheaper and much better... In any account, that yould be a nice system

I would go with: Soltek SL-75DR4 Royal Purple Athlon XP what ever your budget 512 Crucial DDR 2 X 256 Thermalright SK6 Copper Heatsink Maxtor ATA 133 40GB, 60GB The Soltek has ATA 133 support. The board also has beat almost every board out there, and is cheaper then most boards.

Epox 8kha+ great MB fairly easy to OC but its fussy on power supplies 350W minimum

Quote "When you say Athlon 1.6, I assume you mean Athlon XP 1600+." Actually AMD created this system because most people who buy a computer think that the clock speed means a faster CPU, which is not always the case. What they mean by xp 1600 is that the performance is similar to what you will get with a Intel 1.6 GHz. AMD's XP1600 may only run at 1.2GHz

The Athlon XP 1600+ clocks at 1.4 GHz the XP1900+ clocks at 1.6 GHz

Many thanks for your contributions people, I suppose at the end of the day there is no definitive answer and we will all have our favs' but it's good to have forums like this where you can kick things around (cheers Justin :))