Hi rick, did you stick to your choice of Asus A7N266-VM? nforce1 thus.
You mentioned a price of 75$, but the MSI board will be more like 130$.
Oh well. If you boot your new system with a knoppix CD, does that work,
only not optimally, or does it require Overclockix for the nforce to be usable
at all? I don't mind recompiling a kernel and whatnot for my HD-installation,
but I'd still like to retain the posiiblity to test new knoppix releases from plain
CD or poor man installl.

Did you try the 'toram' cheatcode with that Gb of memory? How does it feel?
Just the other day a colleague of mine told me someone had announced 500 Gb
HD's for 2004, a pair of which he intends to buy for his heavy-duty video-editing
needs. Sure, terabytes of storage, gigabytes of ram, multi-gigahertz CPU's,
50+ Mbits/s wireless ... what's next