On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:46:02PM -0500, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello again, folks - > > A while back I emailed you for advice on the best motherboard that I > could get for a rock-solid digital audio workstation. I appreciate all > the recommendations, and wound up buying an Intel D925XECV2 with a > Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz processor. I have 2 Kingston 512MB RAM sticks > coming as well. I've also got a Seagate 250Mb SATA Barracuda on the > way, too. I will use this for the system software and get a couple of > bigger drives for data later. > > The D925XECV2 is a nice board near as I can tell (I haven't fired it > up yet) but it does not come with on-board video. It does come with a > PCI-Express slot, so my next question is what is the best video board > to get for this setup? "Best?" Depends what you care about :-) For a low-cost, fanless (silent!) card that works well with Free drivers, I've been very happy with my Gigabyte GV-NX66256DP2 GeForce 6600 256MB card. With the non-Free drivers, its 3D performance is also more than sufficient for my continuing quake 3 habit :-) But it seems to be discontinued already, or at least newegg no longer has them. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
