I recently slapped a new rig together using an MSI K7T266 Pro2 mobo and it screams. It's a good board, will take an XP 1800+ right out of the box (2000+ w/BIOS flash), and 3 gigs of DDR. My sole gripe, aside from the AC97 audio, is the board's intelligence. I had to plug everything in, boot it up, let Winblows try figuring out everything and fail, then shut down, unplug and replug everything, reboot, and THEN it worked. While it may be an older board (2001 model), the thing just runs right along. I dropped a 900MHZ T-bird along with a 128 meg stick of Samsung DDR (PC2700) in it. It comes with a D-bracket (diagnostic lights) that has two USB 1.1 jacks built-in, plus the two on the board itself. Just don't use the built-in audio, or the gameport; both of 'em have an attitude. Especially when you *cough* accidently install the wrong driver. Things get to sounding strange in a hurry!
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Flakbait [Delta6]
Delta Six's Flight SchoolPut the P-61B in Aces High"For yay did the sky darken, and split open and spew forth fire, and
through the smoke rode the Four Wurgers of the Apocalypse.
And on their canopies was tattooed the number of the Beast, and the
number was 190." Jedi, Verse Five, Capter Two, The Book of Dweeb
