A friend has given me a Pentium-class motherboard, and I want to build a
system with it. I'm much more experienced w/ mac stuff, so I'd appreciate
some advice.

The board has 4 PCI and 4 ISA slots. It also has 4 72-pin SIMM slots,
(supposedly) 2 IDE controlers, 2 serial, one parallel, and one floppy.
There are no names of companies on the board, other than "SI54P-AIO Rev.
1.0" and a SIS 85C501, 502, and 503. It has a Phoenix MB bios.

Once I get the hardware up, I think I can get the software up.

What experiences do folks have w/ Samsung and Fujitsu EIDE drives? I can
get either a 2 GB Samsung or a 1.7 GB Fujitsu. Are they both equally good?
Both lousy?

I need to get a CPU. I was tending towards a Cyrix 6x86 but I'd appreciate
input. The motherboard is kinda old (which is why I'm getting it). It can
be jumpered for 50, 60, and 66 MHz. Woo Hoo! 

So I gather the max this puppy will do is 66 MHz then? Are there CPU's
which will internally chirp the clock?

As I can't seem to set the CPU voltage, I gather it's whatever an old P5
would be. Is that 3.3V or 3.6V (or something else)?

Is a PCI640B IDE controller good?

What is a 37C655? It has one on board. The floppy?

Is an ECP mode parallel port the one which can be bi-directional?

Even though a 66 MHz CPU sounds slow, it would be faster than my 20 MHz
68030 at home. :-)

Sorry about all the newbie-is Q's..

Thanks!

Bill