[ale] Good bang-for-buck mobo/cpu?

[charriglists at bellsouth.net (Calvin Harrigan)]

Joe Bayes wrote:
> Brian Pitts typeth:
> 
>> well but cheap would be Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2 
>> 3600+ processor, and a 1GB stick of any brand of DDR2-667 memory. This 
>> should cost < $200. 
> 
> I just went ahead and followed your suggestion. Installation was a
> breeze, compared to the time and effort I spent on an ECS POS a couple
> weeks ago. 
> 
> And my system is FAST. :)
> 
> Caveat: The mobo manual claims that 16-chip RAM is not supported. But
> I got a ($30) 16-chip stick of ram, and it seems to be working just
> fine.
> 
> Cost was closer to $300 than $200: the mobo was $100, and a 4600+ was
> the cheapest x2 processor they had. 
> 
> Thanks again for the recommendation. 
> 
> Joe
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Where did you buy it?  Seems expensive... Retail?
I'm quite fond of that motherboard and the X2 processor is an awesome 
piece of technology for the price.

Calvin...