On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 16:44, Dave Phillips wrote: > Also, what's a recommended motherboard ? Are there any mobos that > should definitely be avoided ? > > TIA for any help you guys can proffer, it's much appreciated. I've used jack, ardour, rosegarden, fluidsynth on an MSI K7N2Delta with no problems. Also on one of their older athlon dual-cpu boards, can't remember the model number now. Watch out for Adaptec 29xxx scsi controllers though. They're greedy about the PCI bus. bye John