Hi everybody. My home desktop PC is finally beginning to die - the hard disk is failing, I want a faster processor, etc, so I've decided to build my own. I think I'm up to this - it'll teach me a lot, and, for financial reasons, I can pirate some stuff from the old one and gradually upgrade. Having had a good look around at various sites, I have some ideas, but I'd appreciate some input on components. My preference is for AMD, probably an XP 2100+ processor, and I'd like serial ATA, but I can't find much info using that in Linux (I'll be running SuSE 8.2 Pro and have seen Adam's post also). This will be a home machine, will need to do a bit of gaming (for my daughter) and I'll probably have to dual-boot with Windows XP, which I'd prefer to put on a separate drive. On looking at motherboards, I thought the Asus A7N8X was probably a good bet, but I think someone on this list has some problems with it. Any advice would be much appreciated, though sorry if this is a bit OT. David -- Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes