Microcenter currently has a deal on AMD CPU/mobo combos. Buy a AMD Phenom II X2 560 or higher CPU and get a free mobo. Just add ram and you're set. -- Timothy. On 5/25/2011 3:50 PM, Noah Markon wrote: > > You also might just want to look at replacing your motherboard > with a motherboard and cpu combo from Microcenter - they can be > pretty aggressive price wise and so many of the new motherboards > these days are shipping with 4-6 sata ports right on the > motherboard. No need for an add on card. I have a Gigabyte board > with 6 sata ports that I'm running a software raid-10 with 6 1tb > drives, and it is extremely fast. > > > Thanks, that's a good suggestion. The current box is an old celeron, > with 1GB of RAM, maybe it's time I retire it. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110525/78a3b4f0/attachment.html>