Abit is the way to go IMHO. The last time I upgraded my workstation was almost 4 years ago now. I put an Abit mobo w/ an athlon 2500+ (1.8 Ghz) in it and a $50 FX 5200 128Mb video card. I overclocked it to 2.3 Ghz and it has run flawlessly ever since. I think I put a 200Gb Seagate drive in it and that has been flawless as well.
I have a fileserver with an Abit mobo in it as well, it has 5x 200Gb drives in a raid setup that has worked flawlessly for about 2 years. Before that it had 3x 160Gb drives and an older Abit mobo w/ a celeron 300A running at 450Mhz...it ran for like 4 years like that
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