On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 00:38, Zaheer Mohamed Kozhakkaniyil wrote: > Hello Hardware club, > > I think the performance of my Athlon 2400+ is around 7/10. how do you rate a system performance ? which benchmarks are you using ? > I would like to know which is more suited to AMD Athlon, > ASUS or MSI M/B (to install Linux ) ? if you ask me, i care more about the chipset the motherboard is using than the manufacturer. so far the best performing chipset for athlon has been the nforce2 platform. i dont think it has any issues with linux. > Or is there anything like 'more suited' ? see above > Or is my question way behind hopeless ? your query is perfectly allright > > I would also like to know which graphics card chipset is best value for > money and whether I > should go in for a GeForce chipset (for a friend who want to play 3D games) ? > that depends on what kind of games does your friend play. if it is more opengl then nvidia is the way to go. go with NVIDIA FX5xxx series, buy the fastest card the budget will permit. regards bobby