m/b and chip recommendations

[Ken Moffat]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 12/31/07, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
>   
>> I am wondering about opinions on asus motherboards, and whether amd or
>> intel chips are preferred lately. I am looking to buy a couple of office
>> computers. (They would like them to be quick but not expensive. ;-) )
>> Looking to have them built locally.
>>     
>
> Generally speaking, Asus manufactures good quality motherboards,
> however they do occasionally put out some crap.  Unless performance is
> very important, you're not going to notice any differences between AMD
> & Intel. Of course it also depends on the OS you're planning to run.
>
>   

Probably dual boot, XP and some flavor of Debian. Not Vista.