From: Chris 

While I am sure the other mobo manufacturers are just fine, I have become
and Asus "junkie".  The other mobos out there had better be
pretty darn good for me to go away from Asus.  I've never had any bad luck
or problems with Asus motherboards (knock on wood).  I have no real
preference for hard drives, as I'm just not up there.  Since I do a lot of
Flight Sim 2004, I REALLY wanted the ATI video card.  For that application,
nVidia didn't perform nearly as well.  This is not saying that the nVidia
cards are bad, just not optimal for FS2004.

/Chris

Richard B. wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:09:13 -0500, "Tony Ingenoso"
>  wrote:
>
>
>>Any CPU on the market today is fast enough for ordinary business
>>purposes.  I'd look more at stability of the motherboard, correct
>>PnP functioning, etc.
>
>
> They do have some performance considerations with AutoCAD, SketchUp,
> Photoshop, and some other engineering applications.  I haven't sought
> speed at any cost, and that offsets my tech's propensity to do just
> that.
>
> So if you know of the perfect mix, I'd be happy to see it!
> Motherboards I've used in the past are Intel and ASUS, ATi video, and
> Raptor SATA drives.  I haven't really looked closely at RAM
> manufacturer/quality tho.  I believe I just solved a problem due to a
> bad stick, waiting for the user whine alarm to go off as I write this.
>
> - Richard

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